The State of the Union First Draft
If you listened to the State of the Union address from our President, you heard the final, polished, finished product.
If you listened to the State of the Union address from our President, you heard the final, polished, finished product.
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.
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
Whilst Putin and his Russian army destroys Ukraine militarily — they will never scratch the essence of the indomitable patriotic spirit of Ukraine — the United States, NATO, and the European Union, with some other allies such as Australia, South Korea, and Japan, are authoring sanctions. Putin will not be dismayed or swayed by sanctions — particularly these sanctions.
Putin has stockpiled $700,000,000,000 in convertible currency reserves with which to weather the storm that Putin anticipates his timid opponents will fashion. He has done this with energy exports. This was premeditated and betrays the stark calculated plan to invade Ukraine.
He was always going to invade. It was baked in from Day One. This is what happens when America is poorly led.
It is time for some real sanctions, folks.
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.
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.
As a sensitive caring Big Red Car, sometimes I find myself caring too much, but here are seven more things I don’t care about:
1. The Genocide Olympics — I didn’t know when they started. Don’t care when they end. I don’t care about any sport — OK, if I did care about a “sport” it would be curling.
How can anybody take the Olympics seriously when — curling?
If you don’t see the connection between the Hitler 1936 Olympics and the Genocide Games, then that is on you. I don’t care. I just don’t.
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
If you are old enough to recall the British girl group The Spice Girls then you will recall:
Melanie Brown – Mel – Scary Spice
Melanie Chisholm – Melanie C — Sporty Spice
Emma Bunton – Baby Spice
Geri Halliwell – Ginger Spice
Victoria Beckham – Posh Spice
Their mantra was “girl power” and they sold more than 100,000,000 records resulting in more than $800,000,000 in gross revenue including endorsement deals and merchandise. Continue reading
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