Category Archives: War

Winter War II

March 9, 2022 – 11:55 am

The Russian incursion to the Ukraine aka Winter War II has stalled before several strong defensive positions held by the Kiev troops and Putin had better get it together, since after Monday the weather is predicted to be snow for five consecutive days. Armored tanks ran like mud tractors in the snow. A roadside ditch […]

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Winter War II

February 25, 2022 – 5:17 pm

I was wrong about No War between Russia and the Ukraine. Yesterday Boris Putin ordered the invasion of the Ukraine. The President for Life claimed that steppes always had belonged to Russia. His troops made quick advances. No one wants a war. Especially not in winter like the USSR’s failed attack in 1939. Covid has […]

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George Washington # 1

February 21, 2022 – 9:30 am

Six years ago George Washington was voted Britain’s greatest enemy commander by a poll over nearly 8000 people held by the War Museum in London, beating out IRA leader Michael Collins, Napoleon Bonaparte, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Washington’s posthumous victory was explained by a prominent historian, […]

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Battle Of Long Island 1776

February 21, 2022 – 2:45 am

Back in late August 1972 my college friend Ptrov Sinski and I hitchhiked west from Seattle to Boston. A rancher left us off at exit 149, serving George, Washington, a small farming community surrounded by endless fields of ripening wheat. The two of us ignored the sign forbidding hitchhiking, but within ten minutes a Highway […]

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Last Plane From Kabul 8/31/2021

September 1, 2021 – 4:35 pm

Yesterday the last US military transport jet lifted from Kabul airport packed to the brim with last-minute American departees. Hundreds of thousands of Afghanis hoped to join the exodus from the Taliban ruling Afghanistan. The new government had ordered its fighters to not shell the refugees, although an ISIS-K suicide bombing killed 90 civilians and […]

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