This is a placeholder. I don’t have time to write anything substantive right now. Well, no. I’m just a little too “bubbly” and I can’t process my thoughts. But for now, Asia Times has good sitreps on Ukraine.
Their latest: (emphasis mine)
The US will provide High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) to Ukraine, with a Ukrainian promise not to use the systems to fire into Russia. Russia says that’s like “throwing gasoline on the fire.”
Russia in apparent response conducted drills involving “intensive maneuvering” of its nuclear missile forces, the Interfax news agency reported on Wednesday, citing the Russian Defense Ministry.
The equipment used by the Strategic Missile Forces — Russia’s main nuclear deterrence division — includes the “Yars,” an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of up to 6,500 miles (NATO designation SS-27 Mod 2, road-mobile MIRV ICBM). The range would allow the multiple-warhead missile to strike any target in the US.
As Jacob Dreizin points out, it’s what’s on the rocket launchers that counts, and he claims that we aren’t sending our best to the Ukrainians. I hope that’s true, because I don’t trust the Ukrainians at all, and obviously, neither do the Russians.
The reason I do not trust the Ukrainians is because I’ve been reading about their sorry history of extremism, which I will be writing about in future posts, if I can discipline myself. I keep allowing myself to be distracted by developments.
Clearly the threat to use nukes forced Biden to pay attention to Veritas, the Roman goddess of truth and maybe even Sophia, the goddess of wisdom. But he’s still beholden to the party ruled by Ares. And he’s corrupt, corrupt as hell.
I will not be expounding on this at length but will say this: my mother - may her memory be a blessing - told me the Ukrainian "kapos" in Auschwitz were more feared than the SS.
One other thing: the Jews who managed to escape into the Soviet Union largely survived the war. No one survived in Ukraine, Latvia and Lithuania. I have zero love for Putin and the Russians as a victim of the 1968 Soviet invasion of CZ. But neither do I close my eyes to NATO and US warmongering