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.
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
So, I have an HP printer (still under warranty), nice little wireless unit that constantly requires reconnecting to the Internet, but I can handle this.
Yesterday, it stops working and gives me a differing set of messages and colored lights. If you get a solid amber light, the baby doesn’t work.
So, I work my magic that in the past has cracked the code and it doesn’t work.
I do it five times and finally admit defeat and call HP Support to the rescue. Takes a few minutes to present my bonafides, the serial number of the machine, the PIN, and other data.
Then I tell them the story.
I have two conversations wrestling in my head.
Convo #1 – a young man, an impressive, guileful young man full of potential who said something close to: “I am looking for something to do for six months or so that I can immerse myself in and make a lot of money.”
Convo #2 – a salty, seasoned, scarred, wise septuagenarian who said: “It takes about ten years to become an overnight success and there is always a price.”
This got me thinking about some things which in no particular order I share with you, dear readers.
The Nature of Success Continue reading
Before I publish my 2023 predictions, let’s put a red pen to how the Big Red Car did in 2022, shall we?
The economy, in general, will be a mixed bag filled with dangerous sharp-edged objects that will require careful and cautious handling. CORRECT
1. GDP growth will be consistently lower than 2% for the entire year. The post-Pandemic Dead Cat Bounce is over. CORRECT
We will print two quarters at ZERO growth and it will feel like we have an ulcer, a bleeding ulcer, but tech will continue to roll up impressive gains. CORRECT/WRONG
Be long QQQ or TQQQ <<< no, Hell no, don’t take investment advice from a bloody car. You’re smarter than that. WRONG Continue reading
As a proud graduate of Virginia Military Institute I spent a few classes in something called “Military Science” wherein we learned all sorts of things that would be irrelevant to civilians, but useful for professional soldiers.
After four years of schooling, we were all sent out to the Army to learn the same lessons in the field.
This week OPEC+ at its 33rd OPEC and non-OPEC Ministerial Meeting held in Vienna agreed to decrease crude oil production by 2,000,000 barrels a day which will have obvious implications — bad implications — for the rising price of oil, increasing inflation, and the global economy.
Taking 2,000,000 bbl/day out of the pipeline will:
1. Dramatically increase oil prices to the $125 – 150/bbl range.
2. Add another jolt to inflation worldwide, but in particular in the United States.
3. Enrich Putler’s war machine. Continue reading
Vladimir Putin, in an unhinged and wildly threatening speech, informed his nation that he was calling up 300,000 “reservists” for, presumably, service in Ukraine.
There is a lot more to this mobilization to which he did not speak. Continue reading
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