What was supposed to be a three day blitzkrieg is not going into year number three.

Russia historically has a problem on offense, but are psychotic on defense. 

They tried to hit Ukraine from two directions at once and it did not work.  Ukraine has fought hard and the war continues.  A lot of people (not sure how many) have died and this war appears to be a re-run of the First World War.

Hopefully, it is coming to an end as Trump replaces the ineefective Biden and it talking directly to Putin.  The Europeans are upset at not getting the recognition they feel they deserve and it seems Zelensky, whose term expired in April or October of last year (depending on your interpretation of Ukrainian law) is actually a dictator.

Lately, Trump and Zelensky have traded barbs, which is not a smart think for the Ukrainian leader (note the lack of title). 

There might be a lot of vested interests in keep the war going, even if it is one Russian and one Ukrainian shooting in the air three times before going back to their lines.  A lot of aid to Ukraine cannot be accounted for and the whole thing is looking like a money laundering operation.

 British Prime Minister Starmer is talking about sending 30k British soldiers to Ukraine as peacekeepers, but since that is half of Brtiain's army that does not seem like it would work.  Plus, Russia will not agree to have peacekeepers from NATO countries in Ukraine. Furthermore, Starmer want US air power on standby. 

    Can't see Trump going for that.

It also tells you how weak Britain is.

If you do put peacekeepers in there, they have to come from someplace outside NATO.

Russia is not going to give up any land.

Of course, look for European proposals to be non-starters since there seem to be many people making money off this.

The US and Russian adults are taking care of this.  Tell the European children to wait in another room and watch the Lion King or something.

Viva Las Gaza?

 

What do we do with Gaza?

If it is "rebuilt" back to what it was before, then all that happens is that another war ends up on the horizon.  We end up with the usual Middle Eastern problem of another war after one has just ended.

I don't know if Trump's idea of a Middle Eastern Las Vegas could work, but at least it is a thought outside the box to break the aforementioned war cycle.

If the United Nations was a solid functioning organization, it could take over the area and build what needs to be built.  But it is not.  Should the US walk into Gaza and run it?  I think that would a bad idea.

Still, out of the box thinking is the way to go here.  

 Beirut used to be the Paris of the Middle East until the civil war broke out in 1975.  Maybe Gaza could follow that path minus the civil war.  If Beirut gets rolling and gains its pre-civil war form, we can have a bit of competition. 

Its worth thinking about!

Even if we don't pursue this particular option, at least it is something different!

Happy Martin Luther King Day!

 

The nightmare comes to an end

 

Today is the last day of the Biden administration!

The nightmare is ending and he can go off into the ash heap of history!

Many of the so-called "liberal" tyrants are falling. Arden in New Zealand saw the writing on the wall and resigned.  Marin in Finland lost badly in her re-election bid.  Trudeau is on the way out and now Biden is gone.  Germany has a new election in February and Marcon is in trouble in France.  Now, time to get that idiot Starmer in Britain out of 10 Downing Street!

Biden was a complete failuer.  He tried to rule like a dictator through executive orders (none of which have any legal standing), tried to divide Americans, called half of them "garbage", and in the end, his own party dumped.

Good by and good riddance!

Time to fix that damage and move onto something (a lot of somethings!) greater!

The liberation of Canada begins...we hope!

 

Justin Trudeau resigned as Prime Minister of Canada today.

Well, he leaves as soon as the Liberal Party finds a replacement, so it might be a few weeks, but he is gone!

Good-bye and good riddance!

Trudeau has wreaked Canada turning it from a pretty cool place that let me play pro football briefly to a dystopian nightmare that turned into the Soviet Union 2.0, complete with religious persecution, suppression of free speech, and an economy on the constant edge of collapse.  Even the weather was Soviet-like!

With Trudeau leaving, the Great White North has a chance of becoming GREAT again! 

Naturally, it will be a long trip back.  

There is no telling what sort of weirdo the Liberals might pick to replace Trudeau and there is the election coming up in October 2025. But it is a step in the right direction.  There is hope!

Better to run with Pierre Poliievre and the Conservatives and roll the dice. 

Can't be worse/

The thing I could not stand the most about Trudeau was the Freedom Convoy.  He could have at least gone out to meet with them.  They are supposed to be his people after all.  Instead, he called them names and ran way.

He was dumb enough to give an actual Nazi a standing ovation in Parliament. 

Even his own wife left him.

This detestable individual will be gone soon and Canada can start healing.

It won't be easy, so patience please!

Gonna be an uphill climb.

On to 2025!

 

Still delusional

 

Joe Biden, stumbling toward the light and the ash heap of history, said he regrets leaving the presidential race and would have beaten Trump.    

 Deluded to the end...which won't come fast enough.

   Assuming he was actually running things, his time in the Oval Office was a disaster. The economy fell apart, he left the Southern border open, and let's not get into the COVID stupidity.  The wokeness plague was something he aided and abetted. 

In the end, no one will really remember Biden for anything good.

Time for him to stumble off into the sunset and vanish.

It will take a while to clean up the damage caused by this goofball, but we are going to get it down.

My advice to the Democratic Party: Go back to your roots as a slightly liberal version of the Republicans and keep the union angle.  The Democratic Party forgot about the working people they for supposed to represent.  If you don't take care of the customer, someone else will.

I said that in 2016 and they clearly did not listen.

If they want to keep up with the woke stupidity, tell Biden to save a seat for them on the irrelevant and forgotten express. You'll find it next to communism and feudalism. 

March on to 2025!