Tag: Ukraine

Quote of the Day: Deception

 

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.– Jordan Peterson

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn’t -it’s human. Desiderius Erasmus

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Douglas Murray is smart. I like him as a pundit, and I like most of what I’ve heard of his guiding principles. His latest piece in the NY Post, though, while fairly considering counter points, ends with incorrect conclusions based on differences in basic assumptions. Here’s the link, and it’s worth a read, as he […]

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Biden’s Rogue Ultimatum to Ukraine

 

Biden apologists on the left and center-right point to a list of international institutions that believed Viktor Shokin, the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma, was corrupt and had to go. These institutions comprise a Who’s-Who list designed to dazzle the Frums and Frenches of the world: the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the G-7, and many more. “Everyone in the Western community wanted Shokin sacked…” senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Anders Aslund told the Wall Street Journal. At the risk of putting too fine a point on it, Aslund went so far as to include something called the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Well, if the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is onboard, say no more…

Readers may be forgiven for thinking that this argument from authority is just more fake news of the “51 former intelligence officials” variety. That’s because it is. More to the point, it is an attempt to recast then-Vice President Biden’s threat to withhold $1 billion in U.S. aid to Ukraine not as a rogue threat, but a simple extension of Obama administration policy.

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I hope I’m not writing a redundant post, but I could only find this mentioned in one podcast on Ricochet. I’ll quote the article from the always-helpful Not the Bee site. Biden to arm Ukraine with cluster bombs in clear violation of international treaty in new $800-million aid package Preview Open

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After last weekend’s pseudo-coup in Russia, support for arming Ukraine among Americans has gone up.  This is presumably because the kind of activity that we saw last weekend in Russia doesn’t usually happen when that country’s military is actually winning.   Support went from 46% in the May Reuters poll to 65% in this June Reuters […]

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Civil War in Russia? Everything We Know Now (with Updates)

 

Yevgeny Prigozhin, chief of the Wagner Group.

Putin thought he could take Kyiv in a few days. Fifteen months later, his mercenaries and army are fighting each other.

Details on the situation are coming fast and furious, with many reporters, diplomats, and politicians sifting through contradictory statements and unproven claims. But here’s where things stand at 7 p.m. ET.

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The Ukraine-Russia war has raged for over a year.  It seemed that originally, the goal for Russia was to topple the Ukrainian state in 3 days.  Obviously, that goal was frustrated.   Ukraine’s President has mentioned that Ukraine wants to reclaim all of its territory, the territory that was part of Ukraine as of 1991, which […]

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Saved: A War Reporter’s Mission to Make it Home

 

If you’ve watched any show on Fox News recently, you have most certainly seen at least one interview of Benjamin Hall as he shares his story of being critically wounded in Ukraine. Hall is a British American war reporter who relished the opportunity to be in the midst of the fighting all over the world. His story is an inspiring one, as he defies the odds to survive not only his devastating wounds, but his journey of escaping Ukraine and eventually being treated in the United States.

My praise for Hall’s book includes his candid, lucid, and dramatic storytelling, which included some background on his family of origin; his early job partnering with another Brit; his passion for his work; his mental and emotional strength to endure the treatment of his injuries, the separation from his family, the seemingly endless pain from his wounds and the hallucinations that accompanied his pain medications; his devotion to his co-workers, his friends, his rescuers; and finally his love for and dedication to his wife and daughters.

In spite of my praise for his book, though, I also had one major question about his story. More on that later.

‘My Brigade No Longer Exists’

 

The Russian invasion of Ukraine, sometimes called a ‘Special Operation’ by Russian leadership, has created an existential crisis…for Ukraine.

It is an existential crisis for Russian conscripts that are on the front lines of brutal trench warfare. Russian leaders claim that Ukraine belongs to Russia. Ukrainians do not agree with that claim. Regardless of all the claims made by those inside and outside of Ukraine, regardless of the side they advocate for, this is the largest land war in Europe since WWII.

The Anecdotal Yokel Wins the Ukraine War

 

It hit me in the shower. Usually, I don’t like being hit, especially in the shower, but this was an idea, a germ of an idea, or was it something altogether extra?

Send the Taliban to Ukraine to fight the Russians. They are the #1 fighting force in the world, and have defeated the Russians before, although with a different head coach and starting lineup. They’re tenacious, crafty, and even…wily.

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We Byzantines have been fighting the Sassanid Empire for centuries. We have suffered losses but the attrition of the Sassanid’s is well worth it. We can afford to continue fighting until the Persians overthrow their shah or sue for peace. Time is on our side. There are rumors of someone named Muhammad but the situation […]

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Goldstein Wisdom

 

Long, long ago, back just this side of prehistory (measured in internet time) before Barack Obama rewrote the book on being America’s worst president, back in the heyday of blogging when the Vodka Pundit was his own man and not some suit working for the PJMedia mega-corporation, when the drudgereport was conservative (though still a bit shady), and Kim du Toit hadn’t yet quit sharing his particular mix of gun reviews and girlie pics (which, thank goodness, he subsequently resumed) there was Protein Wisdom.

Protein Wisdom was an irreverent, sometimes literary, often bawdy, reliably rebellious, and almost always entertaining blog written by a sketchy English teacher and/or aspiring writer named Jeff Goldstein.

Join Jim and Greg as they applaud Texas for trying to protect its border with Mexico since the Biden administration clearly has no interest in doing so. But will the GOP plan survive the courts if it gets through the legislature? They also break down the news of a Russian warplane forcing down a U.S. surveillance drone, including the immediate U.S. response and the long term consequences. Finally, they inject some much needed comic relief into the week as Newark, New Jersey, finds it became sister cities with a place that doesn’t even exist.

DC Freaks Out Over DeSantis’s Ukraine Comments; Voters Shrug

 

Several right-of-center politicians and commentators are outraged over Gov. Ron DeSantis’s latest statement on the war in Ukraine. The hawks accuse the Florida governor of showing American weakness. Trump accuses him of being too vague. Both claim his short statement threatens his electoral chances — a prediction which reveals a severe case of Beltway Brain.

Fox News host Tucker Carlson asked various potential presidential candidates for their positions on America’s response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This was DeSantis’s response:

While the U.S. has many vital national interests — securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence, and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the Chinese Communist Party — becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them.

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Today it was reported that Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, said that Hungary needs to rethink it relationship with Russia.  This comes a few days after Orban announced that Hungary would support allowing Sweden to join NATO.  So, is this merely a coincidence?  Or is Orban thinking that Western backed Ukraine is likely […]

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Would you shake the hand of someone representing a country that invaded your country? Following the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, many sports leagues excluded Russian teams from competition.  In the sport of tennis, however, this had not happened because tennis is viewed as an individual sport.  Russian tennis players have continued to play […]

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