It is 2:31 AM on 24 February 2022 and you and your beautiful wife are sleeping under a feather quilt in your warm bed in still wintry Kyiv when the phone rings. You look at the clock and rub your sleep shut eyes before answering.
Early in the war President Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska. They look fatigued and worn hard.
The direct and truthful answer to that question, beloved readers, is NO. Not just “no” but fuck no.
The Trump admin — as it promised during the campaign — is pressing hard to arrange a cessation of hostilities starting with a thirty day cease fire between Ukraine and Russia for the purpose of exploring a final resolution to the war.
President Trump promised during the campaign he would negotiate an “end to the war in Ukraine before Inauguration.” That has proven to be more difficult than President Trump imagined, but he is on the job.
Putin giving President Trump the traditional Russian handjob.
Steve Witkoff, 68, is a pal of Donald Trump’s from the rough and tumble of the Manhattan real estate industry. Witkoff, a lawyer (Hofstra University 1983) is an uber successful developer, investor, and financial manager with offices in Manhattan, Miami, and Los Angeles. He is an established and successful heavyweight real estate pro in some of the toughest markets in America.
Witkoff first met Trump when Witkoff was a brand new real estate lawyer with Dreyer & Traub and worked on the Trump account.
President Trump appointed him as the Ambassador to the Middle East to deal with Israel and Hamas. Your Big Red Car gives him high marks for cutting through all the bullshit and forcing Israel to make a ceasefire with Hamas to attempt to attain the release of hostages, particularly American hostages.
Bravo and well played sayeth your Big Red Car. Continue reading
Donald J Trump, enroute to trouncing Kamala Harris, boasted he would end the Ukraine v Russia War before Inauguration Day. Might have been a bit of election braggadocio. Haha.
The old boy can be a bit of a boaster, a braggart. It’s part of his charm, I suppose. I take no offense as it communicates the sentiment clearly. I believe he legitimately does want peace.
Artisan Nothing Burger — sesame seeds and well toasted
I wrote about the drift toward World War III here:
I think we are further along already. Let me share my concerns:
1. The North Koreans and the Russians have begun to cooperate at an increasingly higher troop level. NK is trading troops for cash, oil, food, and nuclear technology.
The Biden admin recently announced it would no longer compel Ukraine to limit its use of American supplied long range armaments (capable of flinging hot iron 190 miles down range) to its own country. Translated: Ukraine can now use American ATACMS to strike targets — only certain targets — inside Russia.
Russia, of course, has no restriction on using their weapons to strike Ukraine anywhere and everywhere.
MGM-140 ATACMS firing M-39 missile with range of either 103 or 190 miles from an M270 MLRS launcher.
Russia is a little country in economic terms with a GDP that is dwarfed by Italy. It is not a technologically advanced nation with most of its manufacturing expertise having been imported.
It is not unfair to say Russia is a little gas station owned by China and India.
Given the recent avalanche of Russian misinformation, one would think they are winning the war and their economy is booming!
That is simply not the case.
Ahhh, dear reader, you want an example? OK, let’s chat about the Russian supposed 5th generation stealth fighter, the Sukhoi Su-57.
It is supposed to be better than the best US fighter. Haha. Sorry.
Recently, the Russians announced with breathless excitement that they had DOUBLED PRODUCTION OF THE STUPENDOUS SU-57. Continue reading
If you know your Revolutionary War history, you will recognize the phrase turned by the pamphleteer and firebrand Thomas Paine in The American Crisis in which he urged the beleaguered American revolutionaries — the Continental Army now on the far side of the Delaware River driven before the victorious British — to hold steady and to justify the cause of freedom.
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