War, Politics, and Life by Bruce Maulden
Couple of interesting Ukrainian-influenced news items — seemingly scenes from an action movie, but cast in real-time with real people playing out special–effects shit, creating huge fright reflected off tiny screens. Even an abrupt ambush: War-zone, near-miss must read: Terrifying dangerous drama divulged of journalist Stuart Ramsay and his team under attack outside the Ukrainian…
Another Ukraine daily war episode — nearly a week’s worth now — and apparently from all indications the whole horrible affair could be nasty and long-lived until there’s an end or whatever nutcase Vlad Putin deems as an end, and the world titters on the tatters created by the action. Putin appears a number of…
In context of the current civilian-war zone in Ukraine, I came across some interesting tidbits while doomscrolling the InbterWebs this afternoon, a goodly chunk maybe mainly on how Vlad Putin is an unhinged asshole who could nevertheless make the entire planet suffer for his cruel brain farts. Michael McFaul, an Obama-era ambassador to Russia, noted…
(Illustration from The New York Times earlier this morning). As I type this post, I’m watching Joe Biden do his thing as all of us come to grips with a shitty, un-called-for war in Ukraine, and how Peter Doocy is a total asshole. And now Biden’s finished — reporters are still shouting questions. I missed the…
Once again, back again this near-mid-day Tuesday here in California’s Central Valley — expecting some rain this afternoon, but this is drought infested lands, so I don’t expect much. Despite not feeling real good, at least I don’t feel real bad. The cold/flu/whatever/maybe COVID I’ve been experiencing the last 10 days or so has become…
Beyond the shit of America itself, some news today of a horrible science-fiction rattle in modern warfare — an Israeli assassination last year was carried out by robot sniper, and even with high-tech hardware, there are some shitty, deadly consequences to remote death-dealing: Horribly interesting details from The New York Times this morning — after…
Latest installments of the Afghan-disaster chronicles this Friday afternoon, and how fast the week when shit happens. A cascade of events, going from reality to denial. One note of the extreme measures of getting to the airport — via the Guardian‘s live blog this afternoon: The Pentagon said on Friday that the US used three…
Quick pace of the end game was astonishing — banner headlines at news outlets this Sunday afternoon: ‘Afghan Government Falls‘ (CNN); ‘Afghanistan Falls To Taliban‘ (The Washington Post); ‘Taliban Seize Afghanistan; US Scrambles To Evacuate Americans‘ (The New York Times); you get the point. On the ground, a dreadful crisis mode — via Aljazeera a…
(Illustration: Map design: Joshua Project, and was found here). Despite the long-history, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan is back-burner news, and most-likely won’t become front-and-center until the Taliban gain control of the country and slaughter thousands of Afghans, then only in passing. The situation of our retreating from, and out of Afghanistan is a shameful…
A gut-wrenching, heart-breaking clip on the real victims of idiot war (h/t tweet Susie): Tragedy of the latest Israel/Palestinian conflict are the children, as it is in all fucking wars, and they pay the heaviest price for being caught in the middle of some half-ass excuse for humans to kill each other. As long as…
