Day 1077
Their tongues are wet
A friend from Odesa sends a video of clean up ops after the Bristol Hotel ballistic missile strike last week.
You know how American foreign policy hacks have been bouncing around ideas about ending the biggest bloodbath in Europe since World War II: they talk about “realism,” about their efforts to structure Donald’s low cost calculation for our destruction.
Well, of course it’s galling.
Brushed up on The Battle of Kruty yesterday morning.
On the Ukraine jacket, Keith sounds clueless, and Marco isn’t exactly helpful.
Waging trade wars against Mexico, Canada, China, Panama and Denmark while scapegoating “wild lunatics” from USAID is more rewarding than punching Vova in the face.
Priorities.
[…] First let me say this. We think that what Putin did was terrible. Invading a country, the atrocities he’s committed. He did horrible things. But, what, the dishonesty that has existed is that we somehow led people to believe that Ukraine would be able not just to defeat Russia, but destroy ’em. Push them all the way back to what the world looked like in 2012. Or 2014 before the Russians took Crimea and the like. And the result, what they have been asking for the last year and a half, is to fund a stalemate. A protracted stalemate. In which human suffering continues. Meanwhile, Ukraine is being set back 100 years. Their energy grid is being wiped out. Someone’s going to have to pay for all this reconstruction after the fact. Many Ukrainian have left Ukraine and are living in other countries now. They may never return. And that’s their future and it’s in danger in that regard…at the end of the day, he’s got, if you imagine you are a Ukrainian and the Russians have made you suffer so much, and now you’re going to let them keep land? People will be upset about that in Ukraine and you would understand it…there’s going to have to be a lot of hard work done. And I think only the United States under the leadership of President Trump can make that possible. — Marco (The Strategic Reasons the Trump Administration Really Wants to Buy Greenland, with Secretary Rubio w/ The Megyn Kelly Show, January 30, 2025)
Vova invaded because wants Ukrainians to be Russians. It has nothing to do with grabbing more land. Why is this so difficult for Keith and Marco to grasp?
Z racks up one more fawning interview characterized by softball questions involving overly gentle and flattering inquiries. The conversation, unfettered and life-affirming, is mostly besides the point.
Susie and Samya from The Associated Press, wearing matching black outfits and boots, forget to ask the most important question:
Why has your country chosen to ignore the principle of combat immunity?
Recent arrests of Ukrainian military commanders have endangered national unity and defense. Ordinarily this would be an issue for foreign flaks to explore, but the purpose of this convo was for Z to be a heat seeking missile aimed at Donald’s ass.
Flashback of the Day:
For over 100 weeks now, my headlines have blared out something like the following: "Day of the Defender” or "The Crops Are Dying” or “Tree Trimming with Det Chord.” Often the ominous headers add qualifying comparatives — "more" or "greater" — or apocalyptic adjectives and nouns such as "bleak," "crisis," and "chaos" — suggesting the disorder is increasing geometrically, rather than incrementally, which it is.
Fourteen people died, including two kids, after a Russian missile flattened a residential building in Poltava on February 1.
