“That’s newspapers for you. You could fill volumes with what you don’t read in ‘em.” – The Green Berets
I decided never to jog with Marcus Aurelius. It’s always dangerous to run with Caesars.
Self-discipline is hard, but it starts with the smallest step. Even (the dead) Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius in his book Meditations talked about how hard it was to get out of bed in the morning. Marcus talked about how warm and comfy he was under the covers, and how he’d like to stay there, curled up. In then end, though, he got up because he had responsibility to govern the Empire that was a bit more important than his desire to be comfy.
Me? There are some mornings I would have given up Gaul for another fifteen minutes. Okay, maybe not Gaul because of the food, but definitely Judea.
Marcus did the tough (maybe he had a hangover?) thing because he had a responsibility to millions of citizens to do his very best for them, and as nearly as I can determine, he took that seriously. Plus? It’s good to be the Emperor. I hear they didn’t have to wait in the drive through for Chicken McNuggets® and always got enough Hot Mustard™ sauce.
My advice? Never eat a Kid’s Meal at McDonald’s®. Their mothers tend to get upset.
The difficult part of discipline is that it requires, well, discipline. Getting good things in life is difficult – that’s why we work for them. And that’s why it’s called work. It’s tough. But when the seeds are planted, cared for, and weeded, then at harvest it’s time to reap the rewards. Discipline is like that. Heck, some sort of east Asian place that I can’t be bothered to look up has a proverb that says that, “A woman who marries a man who works hard every day will never starve.”
I don’t think that was China, because if it was China, they have been starving every century by the tens of millions, especially when they embarked on the Chinese Diet Plan called Communism. Maybe it was Puerto Rico? Or Applebee’s™?
Probably not. But I think it might have ended in a vowel, but not Y, because that’s sometimes only a vowel, and I don’t think that Asians use the same fonts.
So, if even a dead Roman can figure it out, why can’t we?
Some people want to ban Roman numerals. Not on my watch.
The latest bouts of fiscal insanity in the United States have made me think that none of them have read Marcus Aurelius, or maybe even can read. What triggered this post is the recent Supreme Court Case about ghosts. Oh, wait, that’s later. No, student loans.
Student loans in the United States are a particularly horrible thing that gives money to Leftist professors so that they can indoctrinate youth but the youth has to pay for it until they lose all their teeth or pay it off. I think that was in the terms and conditions of my student loans, but I can’t be exactly sure, since after I signed my name, they gave me $7,500. Duh.
The most pernicious thing about student loans is that they live forever. I paid mine off in January, 2013. I paid ahead, but didn’t want to pay them off completely if the world ended in December, 2012 (which was a thing). Oddly, this is a true story, and illustrates how far I’m willing to take a joke.
But student loan forgiveness is just the tip of the iceberg. For the last five or so years of my life, the government (both Right and Left) has been like a fat girl who decides on a Tuesday night that the diet is over. That cookie dough? Sure. I can eat a tube or two. Covered in frosting. Oh, and I’ll just tidy up the frosting container so it doesn’t go bad. If you’ve given up, why not go all in?
The cannibal decided to go on a vegan diet. He found a family of them at Whole Foods®.
The government (again, both Right and Left) has decided that there is no limit. Every Tuesday for them is time to give Ukraine more money for . . . (spins wheel) dental x-ray infrastructure. Will $23 billion cover that? Sure, if it were just Ukraine, that would be one thing. But it’s not just that. Biden’s Build Back Better means that we’ll just burn cash to make us warm if we run out of oil.
If I seem a bit cynical, it’s because that at every single turn in my life, that I’ve seen fiscal discipline further erode, and money fly a bit freer each day. At no point have I ever seen (outside of Ron and Rand Paul) and politician say, “stop”. Apparently, when elected to Congress, the “spend money on everything light” blinks on the dashboard of their cars.
My dashboard keeps telling me “trunk is ajar”. Silly car. A trunk isn’t a jar.
There is no discipline. There is no pretending to have discipline. It’s all just comfy warm covers and Chicken McNuggies™ while every sense of fiscal discipline is overridden by another trip of the spoon int the Pillsbury™ chocolate frosting.
But that’s okay. I’m sure it will end fine. Where’s the frosting? I think I want to sleep late today. Oh, but have we spent enough money on Ukraine?
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IT’S A NO BRAINER
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Odd that Fetterman is entirely absent. I’m thinking he might be flatlining somewhere, but without Kevin Bacon.
Thank goodness there were no Comfy Chairs and Pillows in MA’s day. He never could govern properly if that were the case.
This next comment is brought to you by the Deprtment of Redundancacy Department (apologies to “The Firesign Theatre”). Seriously, there’s a lack of thought that is seriously thought out these days. Shallow prevails.
This is marching to disaster. How’s your Mandarin or Russian these days? You’ll need to be proficient soon if things don’t change.
Ahh, Firesign, good times. But there were comfy chairs and pillows, and MA had ’em, which made it even tougher.
Only 2,000 words in Spanish, and another 2,000 in Norwegian.
Think they’re spending like crazy now? Just wait until currency goes 100% digital.
When the FRB issues a CBDC, inflation is going parabolic and the end will truly be ‘nigh’.
“Fire up the PC, Vern, we need another 100 billion.
Of the three primary purposes of money (medium of exchange, unit of account, store of value), lack of fiscal discipline is a direct attack on “Store of Value”, but until we get to Wiemar-levels of inflation “Medium of Exchange” and “Store of Value” purposes are still valid.
And as long as we only have to deal with the “Store of Value” problem, then individuals can take defensive actions – turn depreciating dollars into something that has intrinsic value: gold (because history and shiny), guns (because useful), high-quality booze (because booze), land (because useful), equipment (because useful)… it’s not an ideal solution, but it is one we can each individually pursue.
I’d argue that “Store of Value” is already being eroded. As long as inflation is significantly greater than any possible return via savings, or even average stock market returns – we’re losing ground. The obvious upside of converting dollars into things with intrinsic value is: those things keep their value, and may even increase in value. Paper dollars just eventually become so much tinder/wallpaper/toilet paper. If things continue to decline towards total collapse – having ‘supplies’ may be your only ‘savings account’. When we get to the point that dollars are no longer useful as mediums of exchange – it’d be good to have replacements. Things like junk silver, ammo in various denominations – like .22, 9mm, .223, .308, etc, nails & other fasteners, the aforementioned booze, and either shelf-stable foods and/or recently harvested/canned foods all quickly come to mind. If you’ve never bartered before – it’d be wise to start thinking about how. And either learning useful skills (gardening, hunting, brewing/distilling, canning/preservation, home medicines, blacksmithing, gunsmithing, etc), and/or figuring out how to live if we were suddenly thrust back in time 100-150 or so years would be useful mental exercises- because a major/national EMP event would make that more than just a practical exercise. Also – get out and as far away from cities as possible, to someplace where agriculture is the primary industry and find ways to make friends with your neighbors. Those of us who have forgotten need to re-learn that having a good neighbor can be a proverbial lifesaver, or can even actually save your life. And don’t forget that means BEING a good neighbor too. Get good with God. Learn how to take care of / provide for you and yours – without ‘govt’ help. Don’t be a victim.
Yeah – that’s enough rambling for now, but man oh man, are we living in interesting times or what?!?!
We’re not living in the ‘rockets to the stars and flying cars in every garage’ future I was promised as a kid, but no matter how bleak things might look compared to what we might be expecting, or even living now – the future can be bright for those willing to engage their brains. Let’s just hope that our bright future isn’t due to anyone opening some canned sunshine…
Yeah, when canned goods are a better investment than government bonds, times are rough.
Forgive us for piling on, but some pools are made to be cannon-balled into…
1) Spending money we don’t have on Ukraine at least gets us dead Russians for our money. Every one of which won’t be in a T-90 rolling somewhere more vital later on.
Spending money we don’t have on college degrees for idiots and subsidizing ghetto dwellers only gets us more idiot college graduates and ghetto dwellers.
You decide which is a better investment in the long run.
Not bingeing on another roll of cookie dough in the first place is a question for the Fat Girl on another Tuesday night.
2) Besides, there’s a historical precedent with one empire spending itself into oblivion to defeat another one.
It didn’t end well for the “Let them eat cake!” types.
Stop worrying about the budget, and start planning for Bastille Day. Word to your mother.
3) You think Ukraine is expensive? Wait until Russia decides it needs the Baltics back, or Poland. That’s where SPF 10,000 comes into play, not sending tanks and planes to Kiev. (For those unclear on that geopolitical precedent, the Korean and Vietnam Wars say “Hi!”)
If Russia didn’t get enough third-degree burns on their fingers from trying to grab Afghanistan last generation, let Ukraine drive the lesson home until they have charred stumps for arms.
4) We have some examples in history where inadvertently and myopically penciling certain countries “outside our strategic national interests” leads.
We wrote off China in 1946, Trans-Palestine in 1947, Korea in 1949, Indochina in 1950, and Kuwait in early 1990. Quick, anyone…how’d that clever strategy work out, each and every time?
5) Ukraine’s not in your interest package? Okay.
Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania would like a word. All of Scandinavia, Greece, and Turkey are holding on lines 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. And the Philippine ambassador and Taiwanese envoy are waiting in your foyer. They’d all like a quick chat too.
Nature abhors a vacuum.
And just like in Monopoly, everybody grabs up everything, eventually.
6) One of the few things Franklin got right in the 1930s was this: “When your neighbor’s house is on fire, you lend him a hose.” Isolationism in the 1930s cost us 400K dead, for the privilege of rolling over, and sleeping just a little while longer. It cost France their nation, and England their empire. Sleeping in a little longer, as Marcus Aurelius probably said, is jackassical when the house next door is on fire.
7) Say, how’s that Clintonian “peace dividend” and draconian military draw-down from 1992 working out for ya about now?
8) The Sudetenland is holding on Line 9. Stop me if you’ve heard this one…
Aesop, our own home is on fire. Our own treasury is going the route of the French Revolution.
Between your telling us how useless, drunken and stupid the Russians are AND how they are going to do the rest of the world IF WE (The USA) don’t stop them is a wild spin of illogic.
Go sign yourself onto this proxy war Marine. They NEED your medical skills in Bakhmut and soon when they discover your awesome propaganda and military-economic talents they shall promote you to a status worthy of your acerbic wit.
Please point out where the US Military has succeeded in any successful warfighting past WW2.
Afghanistan is waiting for Aesop on line 1. Vietnam waiting on line 2 and so on.
Go back to playing military Sports ball Marine.
Aesop – remind me again why the USA is militarily aiding a nation (Ukraine) that embarked on a ten year plus official program of genocide and ethnic cleansing against a minority population? I mean, I know why Biden and the other Democrats need their money laundering off-shore accounts. But why should our nation help the genocidal tyrants who spent eight years indiscriminately shelling towns and villages, killing over 40,000 civilians for the “crime” of being an ethnic minority? And that was after they made use of their language illegal and literally burned their books, magazines and newspapers.
You know you’re on the side of goodness and light when they burn books, massacre their own citizens, take state control of all media, have a secret police to execute “trouble makers”, and ban all opposition parties. That’s Liberal Democracy right there, that is.
McChuck:
Ukraine embarked on a ten-year program of shelling Russian troops pretending to be civilians in occupied territories within its own country, invaded by Putin’s forces already on three separate occasions prior to last February, and the ethnic Russians remaining there who aided and comforted such invaders. (And who have notably largely abandoned Vlad’s side the minute they found out that shelling their homes by both sides was part of the bargain for that choice.)
Putin’s been doing far worse on his own borders, to Chechens, Georgians, Kazakhs, and Ukrainians, when he wasn’t knocking off his political enemies at home and abroad, or helping Assad napalm Kurds and other Syrian rebels. He even had a go at us militarily, and all it cost him in payment was the annihilation of a brigade of Wagner mercenaries, and an entire air wing deployed to Syria.
If I have a choice, I’ll pick the country that’s kept its military johnson inside its own borders, rather than taken the Grand Tour of all its neighbors. (See if you can figure out why all of Europe is twitchy.)
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And Michael, please tell the class how being $31.6Trillion in debt is ZOMG!!!! ELEVENTY!!! so much worse than only being $31.5Trillion in debt, had we never sent 1¢ to Ukraine.
Let me help you illustrate your argument with an exact graph of your gripe:
https://i.imgur.com/eFvkHgS.jpg
That tiny white speck in the upper left corner of the right graph? That’s the part you’re hyperventilating about.
And the graphic is dead-on balls accurate.
King Kong is on top of the Empire State Building swatting at planes, and your main complaint is that he bent the flagpole. A little.
Only a bare five minutes ago, you where whinging and wetting yourself over a nuclear war that would necessarily have to be initiated by Russia to even occur. Now, apparently, they’re just in Ukraine to poop out Cadbury eggs like the Easter Bunny, and reward the sincerest pumpkin patch, so everything’s rosy?? Pick one devil to advocate for, and stick with it. Chimeric white-knighting is an abuse of electrons that never harmed you, in service of beating the few molecules remaining of a dead horse you neither owned nor rode.
So cool your jets, and secure your bile vents. Nobody – least of all me – is drafting you, so what’s your gripe, really? You aren’t being press-ganged to fight there. No one’s issued a poll tax because of Ukraine. If you were off golfing or fishing, or simply napping in your easy chair with drool coming out of your mouth, and never saw a TV for the entire last year, Ukraine would have affected your existence in any notable way about as much as an argument at the break room lunch table in a Hong Kong factory that makes rubber dog doo would. This war is neither breaking your leg nor picking your pocket, and your ox remains ungored. So this is evidently just an exercise in global warming via cow flatulence, and it hasn’t even disturbed the polar bear at the local zoo.
And if you’re going to hold US warfighting in WWII up to any scrutiny as being superior to later efforts, tell us whom we beat in that war, and how you can discern that monumental victory at the current time. But please check whether you intend to compete in the Comedy category or the Tragedy category before your performance, to facilitate a more precise judgement of the effort.
Go back to being in the rear with the gear. None of your gripes contribute anything, nor matter to anyone but yourself, which explains why all you’ve got to drop is second-rate ad hominem diaper plop. Get a better argument, but if that proves too difficult, at least work up better insults.
LOL, when did you ever accept Gov.com statistics or economic comments?
Does Dear Aesop REALLY think “Inflation is under control”? Or anywhere as low as described by the lickspittle media?
Does Dear Aesop think that made up number you’re trumpeting about has any basis in Reality from our HONEST and MOST Transparent Government EVER?
Do you think it includes those “Little Charges” like buying REPLACEMENT Weapons, Ammo and assorted militaria that our Military needs to defend, ah, America?
You will say anything, clutch at any Gov.com straw and propaganda to “Prove yourself Correct”.
I’ll pay for your one-way ticket to GLORY, “MARINE”.
Having skipped responding to anything I actually wrote, please point to where, in my response to your first diaper-load of ad hominems, I:
1) used government statistics
2) said inflation was under control
3) quoted the lickspittle media
4) said the military as currently formed is well-lead, well-intentioned, well-funded, or well-supplied for any possible conflict.
You can’t do any of that, because it never happened.
Pardon, but your delusions are showing. And you’re yelling.
[That’s a “tell”.]
You’ve quite simply lost your mind, you’re clutching at straws and building them into a veritable Straw Man army to rival the size of the Chinese emperor’s Terra Cotta Army, you’re yelling at dog whistles only sounding within that tiny space between your ears, you’re responding wholly and completely to internal stimuli, and have left the sanity reservation, beyond any dispute or rational excuse.
Seek. Professional. Psychiatric. Help.
(And, to a metaphysical certainty, get a towel, and wipe the spittle off your monitor.)
Warmest congratulations on descending from second-rate ad hominem to fourth-rate. Your second-grade classmates would be so proud, had they only seen it.
Well it would have been preferable to have not started the conflict in the first place which we did by overthrowing the Ukraine government and installing one hostile to Russia. The neocons just can’t help themselves.
Would the U.S. allow Russia or China to overthrown the Government of Canada and install one hostile to the United States and then announce their intention to bring it into a hostile military alliance with them and place heavy weapons there? I doubt it.
Last I looked, it was Ukrainians who overthrew their own government. And if you’re going to step up to the geopolitics plate, please explain to the class the story of how Russia had interfered in Ukrainian politics with every single leader of Ukraine from its independence in 1991 all the way to Zelensky’s predecessor, a total of five presidents, all firmly and perpetually in Russia’s pocket: Poroshenko, Yanukovych, Yushchenko, Kuchma, and Kravchuk.
Not doing that, and trying to make this sound like entirely CIA shenanigans, is a bit like just showing the two seconds of video of the guy in handcuffs in a liquor store getting his neck pulled, but skipping the part where he shot the clerk, robbed the patrons, and beat up ten cops before they gang-wrestled him to the ground, fighting the whole way until beaten and tased into submission.
Vlad’s beef with Zelensky comes down to no more than that: he isn’t a Russian mole, for the first time in Ukraine’s modern history, and Vlad hates a guy that he can’t buy off. Whatever Zelensky’s other character flaws, many though they be, he isn’t a Russian puppet.
So how about we let Ukrainians decide who runs their country, for the first time in 30 years, instead of leaving that choice up to Putin and Russia, which has been running the show there one way or another for the last 500 years? Just for the novelty of the idea.
This isn’t about the president of Ukraine.
It’s about Ukraine, and Ukrainians.
Zelensky could flee Kiev tomorrow with $100 bills stuffed and falling out of his pockets, and those left behind would fight Russia to the last sharpened stick or stone, give them the finger as they were bayonetted, and spit their last bloody breath in Russia’s face, rather than roll over and submit.
If sending them Javelins and tanks evens things up a bit, and lays some serious hate on Vlad’s bumpkins while upsetting their schemes of a re-made Russian empire, I say we give them a shipload or three.
Imagine if you could have sent a couple of million anti-tank mines to Poland in 1938; or if the guys at the Alamo had been given a minigun and a couple of wagonloads of ammo, and a five minute class on how to load it. Different ballgame. And well worth watching.
Just saying.
Oh I forgot, you are the guy who thinks Russia blew up it’s own pipeline. But yeah sure OK the CIA had nothing at all to do with the Ukraine government overthrow. We din do nuffin!! The Ukrainians/NATO were just standing there minding their own business when the evil Putin invaded and began killing all of the children.
Now I assume that Putin is like most leaders of countries in this world, a corrupt tyrant. Kind of like most of our Presidents. But I don’t believe he started this conflict. The people behind this particular war want to carve up Russia and take it’s natural resources. Many of them have outright said so.
Sorry about the typos. I mean Its’ and its’.
Except the West is the Evil Empire now. Vlad isn’t letting the local school district trannify your kid, or using tax dollars to Obamacare his dick off.
1. We could probably get more dead Russians by giving them vodka.
2. Yup, the French certainly did that – along with lots of other expenses. But it did show that the French could beat another armed force, as long as they were French.
3. Meh, I really don’t think Putin wants the Baltics if he can get to Kaliningrad, and Poland? Yikes, that would be far worse than Ukraine.
4. Interesting list! In some cases, (Vietnam) it was going to be a mess no matter when, unless we co-opted them while the French were still there. Kuwait? Our fault – we could have put the kibosh on that in a hurry. But, yeah, not fighting in Korea would have been nice. It would take an (interesting) post to work through those counterfactuals. Again, nice list.
5. Russia will (in short order) be unable to do much because their demographics show them in a collapse. Taking over Europe in 1980? Sure. Taking over Europe in 2023? They celebrate taking over a gas station in the Donbass. The Finns would cut them to ribbons.
6. I think the comparison (with Russia) is weak. China is a far bigger threat (in all ways except nuclear). The weapons make sense, but Ukraine is nearly as corrupt as Russia, and is in no way comparable to France.
7. That was still a strategic mistake, especially on new fronts (cyber and space). We could have been 60 years ahead.
8. Ha! Belarus seems fine with an Anschluss!
The Russkies learned the hard way about the costs of maintaining an empire. If they want to go broke again supporting buffer states, let them. No skin off my nose. If any dumb ass boomer wants to go volunteer to become Ukrainian dogmeat, by all means make the trip. These aceholes need to put their money where their mouths used to be. Ze will take any and all. Stop banging on the keyboard like an old boomer troll and take the plunger. Be a Man among Men and join the Ukie Legion. Otherwise, leave off the crap about saving the world for democrapcy. We’ve heard it all before in much more eloquent prose. Got sniff the grave of Woody Wilson on the way to save the world for trannys and kiddie diddlers. Wear your rainbeaux patch when you take those battlefield selfies. F***king Putz
Good comeback, Potsie.
If any of that codswallop had any bearing on anything I’d ever said, you might have scored a bare point.
Since it’s just your fever dreams, best tend to your underbridge hoard of Cheetos and moosepiss beer, and give up trying the witty riposte game.
You were the last picked for that when it was Little League stakes, and you aren’t improving with age.
Something to ponder in your frequent visits to the porcelain thinking room:
When did Russia ever “maintain” buffer states, rather than strip-mine them of everything of value? Why is it, d’ya suppose, those former buffer states are the most strident, even rabid, supporters of opposing Russia’s aims with all possible force now?
You can take the real name off your reply, but the sticky maple-syrup fingerprints are plain to see.
You’re just a sad, lonely little man, and your pathologically narcissistic self-loathing is pathetic. You’re even ashamed to own your droppings.
“dumb ass boomer”, “old boomer troll”… dear God some of you yoots actually believe the size of your internet dick. A word of warning – some of us older guys were in actual combat; and when we were your age or younger; were more badass than you will ever be (and in many cases still are). So wipe your nose, and for God’s sake proofread your shit before you post it, your garbage reads like a 12 year old wrote it.
Original Grandpa
Vodka alone will not avail. Some drunkards still need a punch in the nose. Usually several, as the pain is fighting upstream against the alcohol.
Putin wants it all back, like a child of divorce just wants a complete family again.
And even with anschluss with the Belarus puppet state, he still needs Lithuania or Poland to re-connect Kaliningrad. That means either a nuclear war, or the collapse of NATO. Lose-lose.
Vlad is still living in 1980, just like Hitler in the bunker was trying to move in divisions that no longer existed, while his aides kept feeding his delusions with pretty lies. Right up until he could feel the enemy artillery overhead, when he killed his dog, his wife, and himself. And he didn’t have a forest of nuclear-tipped V-2s to deal with.
And China is a bigger threat, because Vlad is still living in 1980, when they were generally friendly, or at least shared some ideals. He can’t see reality, nor accept that it’s not 1980 anymore, and Russia is a third-rate power with a second-rate (and dropping by the hour) military.
Vlad is bleeding his impotent army white, and China is going to be there when he collapses, to snap up half of Siberia or more, without firing a shot.
The sooner he looks to within his own country, and abandons the swamp fever delusion of reforming an empire by clawing back lost and now-sovereign states, the happier and more stable a place the entire world becomes. He’s simply not living in world-that-is. I doubt he ever will.
That makes him, in a real sense, the geopolitical version of Baby Huey in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV8yb3_T51g
He needs to be locked up, or put down.
And the Right is, by and large, the chickenshit in a military uniform who mostly watches in that same video, living off the former glory of deeds they never did, but in total denial about any responsibility to live up to expectations or oaths they see as purely rhetorical, not practical obligations nor binding promises.
https://i.imgur.com/dGJxzT5.png
Some of us have had wives like that once…
Send us a video when you get to Ukraine. Make sure and give a kiss to that tranny cumbutt medic on Twatter. The one that put ketchup on its finger and claimed a Hero of the Dicktatorship. Otherwise you’re just another one of those pogues that cheered on the masses as they saved the Empire at Gallipoli. You and Pat freaking Lang. Wannabe warriors….. Just go back to your video games and military porn Remington raider
If Putin needs to be punched in the nose then , at least, the U.S./NATO should enlist their glorious rainbow hoards and females to do the punching. After all the U.S. Government is currently at war with normal white men. The U.S. Government and most of the State and locals have made it abundantly clear that white men are not wanted or needed. I say this because some of these putrid goons in our government are floating the idea of a draft.
So please let the LGBTQ and hetro females have at it. Most of the young white men I know want no part of making Ukraine safe for money laundering. Oh and please, send Ukraine all of the weapons you want. It looks like a lot of them have made their way to the black markets but hey, if you want to make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.
I don’t know what’s in Vlad’s head – and, really, outside of him lobbing nukes, it really doesn’t matter to me. From a “neutering Russia” standpoint, the AT missiles have been 90%+ (like the Stingers in Afghanistan) of what we need. Poland is not afraid.
Yes, the flip side of that is the Minsk Agreement. Minsk Agreement works? The US doesn’t overthrow the elected government with the Maidan Coup?
There is no conflict in the Ukraine today. Hell, Biden could have picked up the phone, not appeased anyone, and half a million boys would still be alive.
But he wanted the conflict.
Me, walking into the room: Who wants to bring back Roman numerals?
John Wilder: I, for one.
Me: Aye. I too.
Random German Quintet: Ve five.
But I could hold up two fingers and get five beers . . .