I woke early this morning after a good night’s sleep and the first thing that hit me was that in Ukraine nobody got a good rest last night because Russia and Putin are bombing modern cities with horrific weapons including artillery, precision missiles, and thermobaric bombs.
Russian multi-tube missile delivery system for thermobaric bombs.
Putin has been planning on invading Ukraine and rekindling the glorious Russian Empire of old for more than 20 years. All one had to do was to listen to his speeches.
This guy right here, this beady eyed thug.
When Putin seized Crimea (Sudetenland analogies, please), he began to build massive currency reserves to weather what he knew was coming — economic sanctions. Right now, he is sitting on more than $600,000,000,000 in reserves which would normally be enough for two years of survival. Continue reading
Chap asks me, “Why do you think Putin lusts after Ukraine?”
So, I do some research and here is what I come up with.
Ukraine is an enormous land mass and its addition to the Russian Putin Empire would be an gigantic coup in terms of land mass and pushing the Russian boundary westward thereby foiling the eastward march of NATO and exposing American weakness.
The country possesses huge mineral and energy reserves, agricultural, and industrial power.
Ukraine overlaid on Europe
There are some days when your mind wanders and you develop no large theme about which to write, but a number of small things accumulate in the recesses of one’s mind.
Here are a few that have solidified in the Big Red Car’s mind:
Putin, a thug overseeing a middling economy on par with Italy’s, is a small man who has a thin, poorly worn veneer of civility holding back an Amazonish flow of despotic behavior. He is a bloody murderer.
Putin in his Siberian Pimp outfit with furry cuffs and hood.
It is the year 2022 and the world is faced with the prospect of a powerful nuclear armed country, Russia, invading its sovereign smaller neighbor, Ukraine, based solely on the complaint that its neighbor does not seek any current or future affiliation with the Communist nation of Russia.
The instigator, the rapist, is the Thug Putin who advances the quaint notion that his desire to be surrounded by friendly nations is sufficient justification for him to rape Ukraine — to unleash a modern army equipped with missiles, cyber weapons, air power, naval power, a massive armored army, infantry, tanks, artillery on a peaceful nation that seeks only to live in peace while sharing a border with Russia.
The world has responded to this with the seriousness of a bad Tinder first date story.
The seal of the Commonwealth of Virginia depicts the Roman goddess Virtue prevailing with sword and staff over the defeated tyrant with his chain, whip, and fallen crown. The vanquished tyrant is the British King after the American Revolution.
Sic Semper Tyrannis means “thus always to tyrants.” Continue reading
The same morons who masterminded the disastrous withdrawal of US personnel and forces from Afghanistan after the US trained and equipped 350,000 man Afghan National Army was routed by 30,000 Taliban are getting ready to involve the United States in another tinderbox potential shooting war situation.
Three masked men discussing the future of Ukraine. “General Milley, have you figured out that whole white rage thing? Is our Army up to speed on its pronouns?”
Leadership is a difficult, broad subject — a constantly evolving, context-dependent, nuanced, and complex issue while being supremely personal and driven by individual style.
We have spoken before about leadership style, authentic leadership voice, but today I want to speak about leadership tone.
By “tone” I mean the emphasis or coloration of how the leader’s voice resonates, its intonation, timbre, or temperament, of how the leader speaks and approaches the solving of problems or meeting challenges. Continue reading
The term Russian Disinformation has been bandied about of late with ZERO credibility, so I thought I might take a second and show you a real example of Russian Disinformation.
Comes now the Russian effort to militarize space. Here is the Russian Disinformation:
1. Russia and Putin have been running around the globe for years decrying the militarization space. Big alligator tears.
2. They weep that they want to ban the use of space weapons.
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