Five months ago I said “Ukraine begins to crumble” and said it has about six months or so of men and material left, but cautiously qualified that incautious prediction by adding that I am endlessly surprised by the Ukraine’s ability to scrape up more men and material. Well, it is now crumbling considerably faster, but …
Author: Jim
Definition of left and right
Leftism starts with envy and covetousness. Covetousness is that someone wants to knock over the apple cart to grab some apples. Envy is he just want to knock over the apple cart because he does not have one. And, given that there are people who want to knock over the applecart, easier and safer to …
Nazis are commies
And commies are Nazis, near as makes no difference to anyone who is not a Nazi or a commie This is evident today in the seeming odd alignment of Ukrainian Nazis and State Department Jews, but was obvious enough to Papen in his Marburg speech. Every time, always, everywhere, leftism gets ever lefter, ever more …
State of the war
Wars happen because some people expect one outcome, and others expect a different outcome. So prediction is hard, for if it was easy, the war would likely have been avoided, though as the war goes on, and on, and on, becomes easier. Due to fog of war, hard to know what is happening now, or …
Trump Unbowed
The early headlines are extremely interesting. Trump removed from stage by Secret Service after loud noises startles former president, crowd – USA today Donald Trump is escorted from stage after pops heard during pennsylvania rally NBC News: Secret Service rushes Trump offstage after popping noises heard at his rally Associated press: Trump has been escorted …
Moderation broken
Suddenly WordPress has started to throw everyone into moderation, despite me turning off the various ad hoc things I have done. As far as I know, I am now just running standard WordPress, and it still just puts everyone into moderation. And I tend to leave my moderation queue unattended for long periods, because from …
Starliner astronauts stranded in space
The official truth, blasted from every media, is that they are not stranded — NASA and Boeing just want time to run some more tests. The astronauts were supposed to do to space walks, but the space suits did not work either. Which is a problem because the space station needs some external maintenance which …
Second U Turn
When Putin invaded, the Global American Empire did a U turn on Covid and the Jab. Recently the government in Kiev has started to evaporate, and their troops on the ground are beginning to disintegrate. Russian advances are still tiny, but there are a lot of them, and the Kievan regime has been creating regiments …
Julian Assange is free, after five years imprisonment for reporting government spying on its citizens
So what does this signify? It is a retreat. What made them afraid? They abruptly retreated on Covid when Putin invaded the Ukraine. Now that Putin is winning in Ukraine, they retreat on Trump and Julian Assange. Putin cured Covid, and Putin freed Julian Assange. Our enemies are starting to worry that imprisoning journalists who …
Georgia color revolution
The Ukraine is not a nation and has never been a nation. It has always been a province of empire, with its boundaries arbitrarily redrawn from time according to administrative convenience. It has always been ruled, then as now, by satraps of empire who regard themselves as imperials, and the locals as mere expendable provincials. …