02/18/25

Understanding The Russian Negotiations #1

The United States sent a handful of men — good men, but completely inexperienced in dealing with the Russians at this high level — from Trump 2.0 to Saudi Arabia to negotiate with the Russians about the war in Ukraine.

It is notable that Ukraine — sitting at the center of the fighting and the victim of Russian aggression — is not at the table discussing its fate. Neither is Nato nor the European Union or other close US allies. This is Trump 2.0 going it alone.

It is Trump 2.0 v the Putin stooges after a “long” and “good” call between Trump and Putin.

The Americans:

Secretary of State Marco Rubio (voted against a $6B aid package to Ukraine in 2024 as a US Senator from Florida),

National Security Adviser Michael Waltz (former Florida Congressman, Special Forces warrior chieftain, VMI graduate), and

Ambassador to the Middle East Steve Witkoff (real estate attorney, real estate developer, Trump pal of some time).

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02/17/25

Is America A Dependable Ally – The Budapest Memorandum

What is the Budapest Memorandum (Memorandum on Security Assurances in Connection with Ukraine’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) and why is it a test of the quality of the United States’ as an ally?

St Olga, patron saint of Kyiv and Ukraine, is disappointed in the United States

What gave rise to the Budapest Memorandum, Big Red Car?

When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics imploded on 25 December 1991, Ukraine instantly became a former socialist republic and an independent sovereign nation.

Ukraine was always a high military achiever and had 1900 strategic nuclear weapons coupled on 176 intercontinental ballistic missiles, 2500 tactical nuclear weapons, and 54 bombers. These weapons were all owned by what had now become the Russian Federation.

At no time did the Ukrainians have any operational control of these nukes. They were always controlled by Russia. Continue reading →

02/16/25

The End of the World As We Know It Is Upon Us

If you listen to the Democrats — in particular Schumer, Pelosi, and Jeffries — y0u are deluged with a crap swallow wave of nonsense about how the world as we know it is at the end because Trump 2.0 is reducing the Jabba the Hutt waist line of our bloated, overgrown government.

Polling indicates more than 80% of the American electorate thinks the US government is too damn big and grotesquely overweight. You can’t get 80% of Americans to agree on free ice cream, amigos.

It is also sayeth the dumbstruck Dems: wildly unconstitutional, anti-democracy, fascist, and a threat to democracy. All that at the same time. Continue reading →

02/14/25

NATO Does Not Need the United States

This new chap, Trump 2.0, has been critical of the United States’ involvement in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of which the United States was a founding member. His primary beef is that the non-US members are not doing their fair share.

Is he right? Let us reason together, shall we?

I will start with the conclusion:

The Europeans, NATO members, do not require any assistance from the United States on their continent on which their major adversary is the despicable, uncivilized, Chinese gas station called “Russia” led by the spawn of the Devil, a truly repugnant, murderous thug named Putin. Continue reading →

02/13/25

Attorney General Bondi and the Department of Justice Come Out Swinging

The Department of Justice yesterday filed suit against New York and its Governor, Attorney General, and Head of the DMV (all in their official capacities, not personally, which is an interesting wrinkle) for the NY Green Light Law.

Here is the actual lawsuit. It is 16 pages long and an easy read. You should read it. Go ahead, read it.

US v New York, et al

What is it all about, Big Red Car, I’m lazy?

The issues are very simple, dear reader: Continue reading →

02/12/25

The US Treasury And Best Practices Exposed By DOGE

Recently five former Dem Secretaries of the Treasury wrote a letter decrying the investigative work being done by Elon Trump’s (haha) Musk’s storm troopers — those fatally young, unpressed khaki-shorted, stained tee-shirted, loosely-groomed, jack-booted thugs from DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency).

Elon Musk’s DOGE thugs/desperadoes. The 19 year old one is the one they call Big Balls.

Like the the pre-Presidential election 2020 letter from the 51 intel community pros, the 5 Secretaries of Treasury letter is mostly nonsense of a scatalogical type. Continue reading →

02/11/25

The NGO Grift and Hustle

The acronym “NGO” is cast about a lot in the news, but what exactly is an NGO and what is their hustle? Great question, dear reader.

Always, always, in all ways, follow the bloody money!

What is an NGO?

An NGO is a Non-government Organization which is an odd name since many of them are, in fact, funded by government block grants or perform government contracts thus making them government dependent organizations. Continue reading →

02/6/25

Dragon Energy

We are only a couple of weeks into the Trump 2.0 administration and I can already feel the palpable improvement — meaning increase — in governing energy emanating from what was essentially a morgue during the Biden administration.

Honestly, I cannot recall the Biden admin, but I turn 74 tomorrow, so that could just be on me. I used to watch Joe Biden walk to/from Marine One and see that Old Man Gait that had that Nascar “pile-up-at-the-turn” quality to it.

When everybody recognized how feeble Joe Biden looked walking to Marine One, the White House assigned people to walk with him so his fragility was not on as direct display thereby validating the concern for the thinking world. Yikes!

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