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Friday, May 23, 2025
Saturday, May 23, 1925. Memorial Day Weekend.
Sunday, March 3, 2024
Wars and Rumors of War, 2024. Part 3. The Putin's Cheerleaders Edition.
February 13, 2024
You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.
Matthew, Chapter 24.
If your position is being cheered by Vladimir Putin, it’s time to reconsider your position.
Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney, whom I did not care much for as a Presidential candidate, has gone on to be an absolute hero in the Senate. It's tragic that he's leaving this year.
Equally tragic is that the once pro defense Republican Party has not only retreated into isolationism, it's gone into America First isolationism, last seen advanced by the likes of the Bund and Lindbergh just prior to World War Two.
February 15, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
The Ukrainians sank the Caesar Kunikov amphibious ship near Alupka with naval drones.
North Korea v. South Korea
North Korea announced that it will take a more aggressive approach to disputed waters near its border with South Korea.
Myanmar
Myanmar announced it will begin to commence its citizens, male and female, to fill a 60,000 man shortage.
February 17, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
Avdiivka has fallen to the Russians after months of fighting.
Severe ammunition shortages are becoming a factor in Ukraine, something that has set in since Republicans following Putin Fan Boy Donald Trump's views have held up aid.
Germany and France both signed bilateral security agreements with Ukraine on February 16.
Putin was bragging up the T-90
M'eh
And now the Russian Navy.
2011 Navalny designed poster about Putin's United Russia party, declaring it to be a "party of crooks and thieves".
Alexei Navalny became the latest Putin opponent in Russia, or outside of it, to die under mysterious circumstances. The 47-year-old politician reportedly collapsed in a penal colony, where he was serving a sentence for "extremism". Trump mouthpiece Lord Haw Haw Carlson excused the death in an interview.
February 18, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War.
A series of rising reactions to the failure of the US to provide ongoing aid to Ukraine is resulting in ramping pressure on the weak Leader of the House, Mike Johnson.
Johnson came into office declaring himself on a mission from God (literally) but so far he's pretty much been a puppet of Trump's, the strings being his extraordinarily weak position, one that is now even weaker as Santos was predictably replaced with a Democrat. Between the refusal to act on the border due to Trump and Ukraine, there's frankly a pretty good chance, in my view, that the Democrats might flip the House in the fall.
At any rate, we'd first note that Congress went on vacation without acting. President Zelenskyy commented that dictators did not go on vacation.
President Biden urged Congress to act.
Vice President Harris pledged US support.
National Review has an editorial aimed at Johnson urging he get off his duff and do something.
A bill in the House provides 47.7 billion for Ukraine, $10.4 billion for Israel, with has strong House report for some interesting reasons, $4.9 billion for the Indo Pacific, including Taiwan and $2.4 billion for supporting U.S. Central Command operations, including funding to offset efforts to deter Houthi
militant attacks in the Red Sea.
Matt Gaetz stated: ". . . I think that is a lot more significant to my constituents than which dude gets to run Crimea"
Presumably one of those things is getting conscripted when Poland and the Baltic States are invaded, which may well be coming, and fighting the first real toe to toe, peer to peer war, since World War Two.
About 400 Russians have been arrested for attending Navalny memorials.
Mexican Border Crisis
Democrats are also exploiting the GOP's Trump ordered failure to act on the border by exploiting the topic, which is now becoming an asset for them.
February 19, 2024
Hamas Israeli War
Israel set a deadline for the start of Ramadan in which it will invade Rafah if its hostages are not freed.
That would be March 10.
While seemingly missed, this may be a change in position towards a negotiated resolution of the conflict, as prior to this Israel has essentially taken the position that it will not be restrained, no matter what.
Papua New Guinea Tribal Warfare
53 people were killed in intertribal warfare on Papua.
February 20, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
I don’t like this reality. Vladimir Putin is an evil war criminal.Vladimir Putin will not lose this war.
Mike Johnson last week. Lindbergh said the same thing about Hitler.
Defecting Russian helicopter pilot Maxim Kuzminov was murdered in Spain.
Donald Trump posted that somehow the death of a Russian opposition leader who was put in a gulag by his Trump's buddy Putin, was sort of about him.
February 21, 2024
Hamas Israeli War
The US vetoed a cease fire resolution in the UN.
February 22, 2024
Trump in a Fox News interview stated, regarding nuclear war, the following:
I worry about their safety too. These people, everyone in this room is in great danger. We have a nuclear weapon that if you hit New York, South Carolina is gone
FWIW, and Trump is receiving criticism on this, the yield of a nuclear weapon is sufficient by a long measure to destroy South Carolina from a strike in New York. Prevailing wind patters, also, would not carry the fallout there.
Anyhow, I'm noting this here as a recent item on NPR's Politics discussed Trump's fear of nuclear war, which apparently is very pronounced.
I don't give Trump credit for deep thought s on very much. The Internet has allowed a lot of those in the shallow end of the pool to have voice as if they know what they're talking about, and frankly I'd include Trump in those in the shallow end of the pool. But apparently nuclear war is one thing he actually thinks about and has opinions on, and he's afraid of it.
That doesn't really surprise me too much.
Trump came of age in in the 1960s which was at a time that the fear of nuclear war was quite pronounced. It remained that way in the 1970s, and by the early 1980s I recall being forced to read A Republic Of Grass. which urged that we surrender to the Soviet Union, essentially, right then and there rather than face the prospect of nuclear war, which lefties were certain Ronald Reagan was going to get us into. I recall some on the right saying "there are worse things than death" in response to such things, which is harsh, but true.
But if your values end at yourself, maybe there aren't.
Russo Ukrainian War
Prominent Russian milblogger Andrei Morozov committed suicide after refusing Russian military command orders to delete his reports on high Russian casualty rates around Avdiivka.
Iranian sources told Reuters that the country provided hundreds of short-range ballistic missiles to Russia in early January.
That certainly helps Russia, but it also shows that industrially its a shadow of the former USSR.
Putin gave a car to the North Korean Communist Monarch.
February 23, 224
Houthi's
The Houthis on sent shippers and insurers a formal notice of a ban on vessels they deem linked to Israel, the U.S. and UK from sailing in waters bordering Yemen. They also declared they are going to use submarine weapons.
Russo Ukrainian War
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that Ukraine has a right to use its Western-supplied weapons to defend itself against Russia, up to and including targeting sites within Russia.
February 24, 2024
Armenia is suspending its membership in Russia's Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).
February 25, 2024
Houthi's
The US and UK struck 18 Houthi targets yesterday.
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Russo Ukrainian War
In a speech marking the two-year point in the war, President Zylenskyy indicated 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers have lost their lives so far, which is actually about half of what I previously saw estimated some time ago.
Two separate measures are being introduced to provide aid to Ukraine that go around Mike Johnson, who has proven to be a Trump flunkie.
King Charles praised President Zylenskyy for his countrymen exhibiting something that Johnson is not, that being courage.
Nigeria
Fifteen Catholics were murdered at Sunday Mass.
February 26, 2024
Hamas v. Israel
The PM of Israel made it clear that it is Israel's intent to enter Rafah no matter what. A ceasefire will merely delay that.
Russo Ukrainian War
Two separate discharge petitions to bring funding for Ukraine are being introduced into the House on different bills, one being the bill that has already passed the Senate. There seems to be optimism that one of them, that being the unique House bill in particular, will pass in this end run around politically castrated Trump eunuch, Mike Johnson.
ISW reports that there were more Russians casualties taking Avdiivka, 47,000, than in the entire Soviet Afghan War.
February 29, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
Russia has taken Stepove, seven miles northwest of Avdiivka. Ukrainian have pulled back from Stepove and the neighboring village of Sieverne.
Maybe the Russians will put up a monument to Mike Johnson there.
March 1, 2024
Russo Ukrainian War
A Ukrainian missile strike killed 19 troops, injured 12 and Colonel Roman Kozhukhov, a respected commander in the occupied Donetsk in Ukraine. They were at a medal ceremony.
Donald Trump's Minister of Propaganda, Tucker "Lord Haw Haw" Carlson, stated that Donald Trump's object of affection, Vlad Putin, was stating something "dumb" when he justified the assault on Ukraine on the object of denazification.
China v. Taiwan
The PRC Coast Guard patrolled prohibited and restricted waters around Taiwan-controlled Kinmen.
Mexican Border Crisis
Both President Biden and would be president Trump were on the Mexican border yesterday.
March 2, 2024
Hamas v. Israel
The United States is going to air drop humanitarian relief into Gaza.
Russo Ukrainian War
Transnistria, breakaway sliver of Moldova, which itself is a Cyrillic using region of Romania that's a separate country as the Russians oppose Moldova uniting with Romania, asked Russia for "protection" from Moldova.
March 3, 2024
Houthis v. the West
A fertilizer ship hit days ago by the Houthis has sunk.
Russo Ukrainian War
For unknown reasons, North Korean munitions shipments to Russia appear to have stopped.
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Saturday, January 27, 2024
Thursday, January 27, 1944. Siege of Leningrad declared over.
On this day, the Soviets announced the end of the Siege of Leningrad.
Tenuous ground communication with the city had happened prior, but now the relief was solid, and the two year, four months, and five day siege was broken.
The battle was one of the most horrific in human history.
The 34th Infantry Division captured Monte Maiola and Caira.
The Marines expanded the Cape Gloucester beachhead on New Britain.
US defensive position on Bougainville, January 27, 1944.
The governments of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States protested Japan's treatment of POW's setting the ground for war crime prosecution.
Anglican Peter Jasper Akinola was born in Nigeria. He would rise to the position of Anglican Primate for Nigeria, and while he was a Low Church Anglican, he was staunch in his opposition to Anglican accommodations to homosexuality. He is retired.
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Sunday, June 24, 1923. President Harding stops by Denver.
The Nigerian National Democratic Party was founded. The party, which advocated for Nigerian independence, was the first in the then British colony.
In other colonial news, France's Chamber of Deputies debated whether to give the French West Indies to the US in payment of war dept. Prime Minister Raymond Poincaré killed the suggestion, saying, "I never would permit such a proposal to be officially made to the French government."
President Harding was in Denver.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Thursday, January 15, 2015
And while we were watching Paris. . .
The Boko Haram, the Islamist terrorist group in Nigeria whose name means "Western education is forbidden" killed 2,000 villagers and displaced 30,000 in an assault on that that town. They also sent explosives into a target area strapped on the back of a girl believed to be about ten years old.
This is in the news, but not like Paris, no doubt because it's activities are principally in Africa, rather than somewhere else.
Just thought you'd want to know.
This is in the news, but not like Paris, no doubt because it's activities are principally in Africa, rather than somewhere else.
Just thought you'd want to know.
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