Tag: Ukraine
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Wearing Down
Attribution to Viewsridge – Own work The Russian invasion of Ukraine is closing on the two-year mark. The pink part of the map is current Russian occupied territory, within Ukraine. The blue areas are areas that Ukraine has retaken from Russia. Ukraine has made gains but how much longer can Ukraine continue this war? Russia…
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Vlad’s Bad Day
Attribution to Kremlin.ru It is only Tuesday but, Vlad is already having a pretty bad week. First, a number of Russian radio and tv stations bordering Ukraine were hacked. The stations aired a broadcast, supposedly by Putin himself (his image on tv) saying, “Ukrainian troops armed to the teeth by NATO and with Washington’s consent…
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Poking The Bear
Attribution to Udo Keppler The war in Ukraine is now a war in Ukraine and Russia. This should be seen as a dangerous turn. There have been drone attacks on Moscow, itself, including an attack on the Kremlin. There has also been attacks and shelling on the Russian region of Belgorod, which borders Ukraine and…
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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…