January 29, 2025

How Trump is Already Cleaning up Ukraine

Below are translations of excerpts from three recent videos from three of my favorite Ukrainian bloggers, who talk about how leftist Ukrainian wolves in sheep’s clothing are in panic mode thanks to recent actions by Trump (use YouTube translate...

October 24, 2024

Ukraine Needs A Milei -- and May Have Found One

A year ago, Ukrainians were mocking Russia for forcing poorly trained and armed men into battle. Russia was supposedly running out of men and money. In central Kyiv (I was there) the government displayed large maps of how Russia might fragment aft...

September 17, 2024

Why Ukraine Will Lose the Battle with Russia

Ukraine does not want to win the latest battle with Russia (the “war” started in 2014), because this battle is too profitable for the Ukrainian elite.  A real war with Russia (with real mobilization of personnel and industry) would c...

February 21, 2024

The Ukrainian Entertainer, and The Sting

My title refers to The Sting, the movie, and the piano ragtime classic, The Entertainer. Eight months ago, President Trump claimed he could settle the Russia/Ukraine war in 24 hours.   The crowd cheered (even on CNN). D...

September 8, 2023

The Long Term Payback from the Ukraine War

A recent Zero Hedge article contains an interesting quote as to why the U.S. warhawks want the Ukraine war:   Beltway liberal elites... still think Russia must be punished given they see Moscow as having brought the "bad orange man...

February 10, 2023

The Real Russia -- and Ukraine

In 2015 in China, an American friend “Showman” (my nickname for him, similar to his real name), a self-styled expert on Russia, was always telling us fellow expats about how Putin had done so much for Russia. He loved Russia and Putin. He...

April 19, 2022

Limu Emu and Vlad

A couple of years ago I moved to a different state and had to change my auto insurance policy with my big-name insurance company.  A month after paying for the new policy, I accidentally discovered that they were about to auto-renew my old polic...

November 23, 2021

The Cruel Lesson to Learn from Austria's COVID Vax Insanity

Back in the late 1990s, I once complained about the quality of the tap water to my German colleagues in Bonn, Germany.  It was full of caulk.  Disgusting.  But they lectured me that the water was great and that it was fu...