Tag: Ukraine
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Neville?
Attribution to Gage Skidmore from Surprise, Arizona Neville Chamberlain is known as the man who backed down to Hitler. In 1938, during a conference in Munich, Chamberlain negotiated the annexation of Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia to Germany. When Chamberlain came London he announced ‘peace in our time’. We all know how that turned out. Ron DeSantis,…
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One Year Later
One year ago, on this date, Russia invaded Ukraine. Putin thought this would be a cakewalk. After all, Russia had invaded Georgia and Crimea, and the only consequences were bleatings from the West. Thanks to Putin’s friend, Donald Trump, NATO, and the West, were in disarray. Trump had done everything possible to diminish, even dismantle,…
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Look Who Is Upset
Joe Biden paid a surprise visit to Kyiv the other day Some people are pretty upset at the visit. The war hawks in Russia are pretty peed off about Biden’s visit. Nationalist Russian journalist Sergey Marden wrote, “Biden in [Kyiv]. Demonstrative humiliation of Russia,” One military hardliner wrote, “Almost a year after the beginning of…
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Hot Spot
Moldova is a small country in Eastern Europe. It has a population of under 3 milliuon. It is bordered by Ukraine. Within Moldova is the unrecognized breakaway state of Transnistria. The population within the breakaway state is pro-Russian In 2020 pro-European candidate Maia Sandu became the first female president of Moldova. In the summer of…
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Tensions Rising
This is the Coat of Arms of Estonia. Estonia is a Baltic country along with Lithuania and Latvia. For those who have played Monopoly the Baltic properties had the lowest houses and hotel values. All three Baltic countries, along with Ukraine are bordered with Russia. All three Baltic countries are members of the EU and…
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Bad Bad Week
Attribution to Kremlin.ru Donald Trump has had a real bad week. Back in 2016, he said, “You’re going to get tired of winning. You’re going to say, ‘Please Mr. President, I have a headache. Please, don’t win so much“ Well, he did win in 2016. Since then, he lost the 2018 midterms and the 2020…
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Bits and Pieces
Attribution to flickr user Phil Guest Looking at the headlines this morning, most of them discouraging, I felt like screaming. Decided to google “primal scream”. The image above is an image of the Scottish Band “Primal Scream”. There you go. Was going to title this chirp “Potpourri” Found out a new thing this morning. Potpourri…
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Two Sided Oopps
As per yesterday’s chirp. Putin is in a desparate situation, given that his anticipated Ukraine victory is falling apart. Oner of the reasons is the vast military support provided by the US and its NATO allies. Putin keeps hoping for the walls of US military support to start cracking. The prospects of this happening appeared…
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Getting Scarier
Things are getting more worrisome in the Ukraine everyday. At this point in time, Ukraine is gaining ground in this conflict. Ukraine is ready to take back Kherson from the Russians. Riussia took over this city early in the war and losing it willk represent a major setback. Morale of the Russian troops, in Ukraine,…
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No blank Cheque
Lot of competing issues that could be chirped today including Liz Truss pulling a British version of a Scaramucci by resigning as leader of the Conservative party and Prime Minister, after only six weeks, and, ongoing legal woes for Trump and his Trumpkins. But today’s chirp is about the world wide consequences that could happen…