I caught up with the scene kids easily but stopped because I didn’t want to lose my phone. They were doing fartleks, also known as wind sprints, along the right bank of the mighty Dnipro River. A Chia seed cocktail, with lime and a dash of honey, might help them run a little faster.
Instead of saying Russia refuses to stop invading, this insufferable prick continues to play the bothsides game. Strategic nonesense is not a policy. The war will end when someone punches Putin in the face, and obvi he won’t be JD or Donald.
Today is the eve the 80-year anniversary of the end of WWII. No one is celebrating in Kyiv. Shaun is bumbling around Zaporizhia wondering about the non-holiday, which Donald yesterday officially declared Victory Day.
The problem is Donald and Vova may say seem to say the same things but don’t think alike, according to practicing philosopher Vladimir Pastukhov, who recently dredged up an anecdote from his lawyering daze at MSD.
As a lawyer for a large pharmaceutical company [Merck], I traveled to New Jersey during the late 1990s to obtain the right to legally certify pharmaceutical advertising materials. One of the brochures that I had to check was for a drug [Fosomax] that prevents complex fractures in women over middle age. The marketing strategy sounded very odd to my "Russian ear."
If you take our drug, your budget will shrink by about a hundred dollars a month, and if you don’t, you might suffer a complex fracture, and then you will need a wheelchair that costs $1,000, a nurse for at least six months, rehab, and so on. The future would belong to them, as it were, if they just bought the medicine. I then carefully said that I do not see a big future for this advertising material in Russia. When asked for clarification, I answered: “In Russia, they don’t think so…”
For Putin, every position is absolute. It is not measured by a number. Not by the amount of money, not by the number of human lives. He thinks that Trump thinks the same. That they are having a fundamental dispute, an argument, a clash. Like, since I’m stubborn, then he will be stubborn too, and so we will stand on this crooked bridge bridge until someone out-butts the other. But Trump is not about that. Donald is about money (but not in the sense that Putin is). He has a calculator in his head that constantly calculates what will be cheaper for him: to be friends or to fight? And he will choose whichever is cheaper.
Finally, this vid from Skala illustrating the futility of using invisibility cloaks to hide from fpv kamikaze drones on the battlefield.