No idea. But I like it.
I hope Ukraine is right, but I doubt it. Better chance of armed uprisings in Russia over the course of the war than that they simply run out of...
Like the damn Nazis. Or the Khmer Rouge. Or revisionist Sumerians, trying to bring back infant sacrifice. Why would we immediately leap to Putin?...
Submarine say, “Kherson is great second example of glorious deception operation to lull Nazis into false sense of security and convince them to...
Fine. You’re bringing in 137,000 crack, experienced troops who were not on the books before. Totally passes the smell test. But I ask again: What...
Uh huh. Continues to not address why Russia needs 137,000 more raw conscripts when it is on the cusp of victory. That’s okay. If I was part of the...
And Hungary is a simple matter of negotiation. If we make it in Hungary’s interest, they will do whatever. But we have not.
1. Ukraine cannot invade Donbas anymore than I can steal my own car from a thief who stole it from me. Russia’s claims on it and Crimea are about...
As a midshipman at UF, I spent enough time on subs and ships that I knew — yo, ho, yo, ho — it was not a pirate’s life for me. In the Marines I...
Read a lot of books about war, have you?
What you have written is likely true, clearly obvious, and not particularly relevant to the question of why Russia, on the cusp of dramatic...
Outside of the scope of this thread, but one of my favorite Kissinger stories is when he first met Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, to assure...
I see Marshal Putin is calling up 137,000 more “volunteers” for service in Ukraine, airily brushing off questions as to whether these “volunteers”...
Same. I’m a pilot. So way, way, way more value dead.
I would say some of what you wrote would have to be considerations when negotiating a life insurance policy and when deciding whether or not to...
No deal. The organs, teeth, etc belong to the winner of the duel by right of conquest. Counteroffer: you get first right of refusal to negotiate...
Sorry. No champions. Anyone unable to fight their own duels will have to decline. Otherwise, the trust-fund babies would challenge to a duel...
Business matter. You have no standing. What you can have is a partnership …
Under my plan, the necessity to have a writ by a magistrate would 1. allow for a sufficient cooling-off period that would allow one of both of the...
I’m afraid not. Dr. Strangelove came about well before Kissinger was well known outside of the strategic studies academic community. As to...
