The Russian Spring Offensive is underway. Yawn.
Let’s talk manpower like we talked tanks the other day:
Of course, dear reader, let’s lay the foundation, shall we?
1. Russia is a country of 144,000,000 of which approximately 1,000,000 men in the prime draft age range have fled.
Crack Russian conscripts eager to fight and die in Ukraine. Haha. The smart ones fled the country.
Today, I heard a lovely sermon in church. I go to this particular church because the rector gives such wonderful sermons.
The church dates from three years after the end of the Civil War and is steeped in history. It sits on one of Savannah’s gorgeous squares made all the more lovely by the azaleas that are just coming out.
It is a time to think big thoughts. Continue reading
China is buying all the Russian oil it can — huge discount from their new Orc pals — and is thereby funding the Putin war machine in Ukraine. Move on, nothing to see here.
In the course of this, Putin and Xi have been playing a lot of canasta and watching porn together.
Xi Jinping is going to Moscow — something he assiduously refused to do in order not to tip his hand in support of Russian perfidy in Ukraine.
Couple of cutups saying hello at the Despotic Murderers Club, Moscow branch.
Now, he’s going to go clubbing in Moscow and intends to hook up with Putin for some quality bare chested horse riding. Continue reading
Recently I spoke to a fellow graduate of Virginia Military Institute and he said, “That is not the hill I want to die on.”
Both of us, being former soldiers, understood the portent of those words. There was no hill involved nor any prospect of death, but it meant what he intended it to — this was not the issue upon which to bet the entire enterprise. I agreed with him.
In business, life, relationships, the military, and the social wars that engulf our great national experiment, it is becoming progressively more difficult to sell the idea of the decisive engagement.
George Washington is known for being the most influential Founding Father, but he was also the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, a warrior chieftain, and the first two American Presidents. Sort of awkward the way I said that, but you understand what I mean.
Washington depicted after the battles of Trenton and Princeton by Charles Willson Peale, one of 8 different paintings of G Washington by Peale and his son.
Prior to the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine by Russia, it was thought Russian forces were tank heavy and highly mobile. In fact, many thought the Russian tank corps was a killing machine capable of running over its adversaries.
What the Ukrainians quickly revealed was: Continue reading
Today elements of four Russian divisions have a coordinated attack in the Luhansk area. This is the first shot in the Russian Spring Offensive.
Note the GREEN circles by Luhansk and Donetsk. Putin is keen to control these two areas — he pretended to absorb these two areas into Russia — that have seen fighting since 2014. Continue reading
I wake up early every morning and check the news, particularly the war news out of Ukraine.
I catch myself wondering if this is really the 21st century when I see a nuclear nation, Russia, invading and slaughtering a neighbor on some tired bullshit mumbled by a mad man about Nazis.
Recently, Germany played the reluctant, virginial, arranged marriage, trembling bridesmaid on the eve of her wedding being coy about slipping out of her knickers and approving the transfer of Leopard tanks to Ukraine from other countries as well as from Germany.
If you buy a Leopard, unlike if you buy a BMW or a Mercedes, the Germans must approve any subsequent transfer. Seems a bit silly, but you play them the way they lay.
After prolonged sweaty foreplay and heavy breathing, and extracting a promise the Americans would send their lovely Abrams tanks to the deb ball, Germany finally drew its skirt over its head and delivered the permission and one hopes the Leopards are soon running free and wild incinerating Orc tanks. Continue reading
Thank you for subscribing.
Something went wrong.