Happy Thanskgiving!

 

The Russian missile attack that wasn't

 

Do you think I was going to let the Associated Press off the hook?

They reported, through an anonymous source (of course...), that a Russian missile landed in Poland and killed two people.  NATO was ready to call for an Article 4 meeting to gather to discussion an Article 5 over whether this was attack or what to do next.

Only it never happened.

Odd how there were no photos or independent confirmation through satellite or ground sources or even a picture of the impact site.

 Of course, Ukraine got $38 billion in aid and I bet none of it made it to Kiev.  NATO has desperately tried to remain relevant and Russia's resurgence is the life raft they found.  As NATO prattles on about Russian aggression, Western campaigns against Serbia and and Libya are pushed under the rug.

NATO does not want a war with Russia or vice versa.  They want to keep the tensions so that the flow of weapons sales and "foreign aid" is not cut off:  

I am worried about a 1914 rerun.  No one wanted a war then either, but the political leaders of a century ago led a regional crisis get out of hand and the worst war in history broke out.....until the next one.

Given the low quality of political leadership in today's world, it could happen again.

Let's hope  history does not repeat itself.

North Korean sheniggans

 

It would be funny if there were not for the fact that nuclear weapons were involved.

North Korea, a threat to most of Northeast Asia in the best of times, became a nuclear power in 2006.  With the ability to launch nuclear-tipped nukes, North Korea is now a Pacific-wide threat, able to hit the US West Coast.

Considering the growing instability on the planet, worse case Russian attack west, Chinese attack on Taiwan, Iranian assault in the Persian Gulf, and North Korean attack into South Korea would be the ultimate nightmare,  Given the low quality of Western leadership at this point in history, the scenario gets scarier. 

Fortunately, Russian and Chinese leadership has not been all that impressive in 2022 as Russia's bog-down Ukrainian venture and China's sound and fury over Taiwan, basically just launching missiles into the water despite threats of force.

The problem is North Korea.

If they were to attack into South Korea, a second Korean War could pull everyone into a conflict that could turn into the scenario above. That is how the First World War started.  Terrible leadership that lost control of a local Balkans crisis that turned into the nightmare of 1914-1918 and set the stage for the a worse war twenty years later.

Big difference between then and now are the nukes.

If everyone loses control (if they had it to begin with), the war comes to everyone's home.

Alberta apologizes

 

Danielle Smith, the new Premier of Alberta, officially apologized to vaccinated Canadians were were oppressed during the COVID pandemic.  After all of the mandates, restrictions, and general idiocy promulgated by the Canadian government (not even going into reaction to the Freedom Convoy), one of the country's largest provinces just admitted it was all an overreaction. 

Meanwhile Arthur Pawlowski and Christoper Scott, heroically keeping their church and restaurant open in the face of oppression that violated their rights enshrined in the Canadian Charter of Rights, went to court and had COVID-related charges thrown out.  

Now, Alberta apologizes.  

Better late than never.

Now let's wait for the other provinces and the Canadian federal government to follow suit.

On the other hand, bugger them.

Never forget they tried (and failed) to shut down businesses, churches, and family holidays, tried to create a Nazi-style vaccine passport ("Papers, please!") to go in a store, and made people watch Gram die on Skype.  

Never forget and never let it happen again!

They basically tried to run Tuskegee 2.0.

If you are not sure that that is, look it up.

Use the computer for something other than pornography! :-) 

And have a fun life!

Not how to make friends...

 It is really hard to keep up with Biden's screw ups since there are so many to pick from every week.

Watching the US-Saudi relation unravel in an interesting study of watching a good relationship fall apart.  Not sure how it happened, but as Barack Obama said, if you want to screw something up, "give it to Joe Biden". It was phrased a bit more colorfully, but you get the point.

The US used to depend on Saudi Arabia for oil, but by 2016, tapping her own reserves, America achieved the energy independence that President Nixon said the US would achieve by 1980.  Better late than never!

Biden slithers into office, shuts down the US oil pipelines and America's economy nosedives.  After going to Saudi to beg for more oil, Biden is refused to his face and Riyadh raised the price of oil on the US. Saudi drops it for European and Asian nations, but raised it twice on the US in two months.

So much for years of diplomatic experience.

The easiest way out of the oil mess is to drill in North Dakota.

Instead, Joe Biden starts releasing oil from the Strategic Oil Reserve without putting anything back in.  This is the path to disaster.  Somehow this does not surprise anyone.  

Regaining oil independence means the US does not have to worry about what Saudi Arabia thinks. Getting oil from Venezuela is not the answer.

Now Saudi Arabia is thinking about joining BRICs, the economic alliance between Brazil, Russia, India, and China.  Saudi inclusion makes this group even stronger.  Watch for China or Russia to try to solved Irainian-Saudi troubles in the Persian Gulf and if successful, their prestige in the region rises.

After two decades of warfare in the Middle East, Americans should be infuriated. 

Guess we will see after the midterm elections.

COVID ends in Canada

 

Common sense and decency returned to Canada as the Trudeau morons dropped all COVID restrictions.  There are some universities still pursuing this insanity, but the rest of the nation is free of this stupidity. Meanwhile, a lawsuit challenging this actions is making its way to the Canadian Supreme Court.  Violations of Canadian Charter of Rights have a way of doing that....

Many areas have been ignoring the Covid decrees for a while, but the US-Canadian border is finally reopened. at least from the Canadian side.  Meanwhile, Washington demands vaccines to enter the country, while hundreds of thousands cross over from Mexico, a violation of US law.

Now we have to make sure this does not happen this again!

Listening to these idiots and their decrees is what gives them power.  If you don't listen, it is like pulling the plug.

Governors of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin have had their emergency powers stripped from them.  So, quite a few people get it!

Now, go forth and conquer! 

Happy Anniversary!

 

On September 27, 2008, I married my soul mate, Michelle!  The planet is still off its axis!  LOL