Gosh, so much has been going on.
Ukraine, which is out in gamma, is helping itself to all available time. People seem to be using it, and liking it. Others are using it and wondering why Z doesn’t do precisely what they want him to do. To these people I say give him time. Maybe lots of time. The tireless bughunters of ultra-competitive Ukraine-style politics are not your new best friends.
I designed labels for the new cellar. These are going to the printer this week. Much of the 2023 crop is now in casks. It is excellent; I know because I’ve tasted it and, even to my Agrusivka-scorched palate, it is excellent. Some guy from Semihory came through last week and ordered 150 bottles.
At 62 years of age, I have gone from being the person who tucks his shirt directly into his trousers, to the person who prefers to completely undo his trousers, tuck in his shirt, then zip up again.
The dogs are constant. The dogs never, ever lay off.
I have no regrets about acquiring a Cannondale Big Fatty ten years ago.
Tony is expected in Kyiv today. The visit comes amid Russia’s latest barrage of cruise missiles. Teams USA and Ukraine are preparing the groundwork for Z’s voyage to America at the end of the month.
Terrain analysis by George from the GEOINT Team shows contested areas in southern Ukraine are indeed flat shapes that you can manipulate on Google Earth.
David and Mark are huddling over the Global South, re-rashing months-old observations1.
The simple fact is that there won’t be a just peace to end this terrible conflict without support from the fence-sitters.
Tucker, meanwhile, has suggested that the Biden administration will attempt to maintain power by starting a "hot war" with Russia before the 2024 election2.
What are they gonna do? They're gonna go to war with Russia. There will be a hot war between the United States and Russia in the next year ... I don't think we'll win it. - Tucker Carlson, Newsweek.com
That anyone anywhere is so stupid as to take this laughable piece of shit seriously, with his faux-jovial giggling at the dead, his deranged fantasies of multiculturalism and gangrape, his laboured lies on behalf of those whose plan for ‘security’ in the face of genocide is to seize oil under the fuzzy cover of rage against wrong-thinking brown people, his munificent and forgiving massages of hatred among neocon sheep, is beyond me.
I think this was the same Newsweek that told us around Day 510ish about the hundred or so CIA operatives put in charge of managing the war3.
Tucker Carlson Rejects Mask Mandate Fears, Predicts War With Russia Instead (Newseek, September 2, 2023)
Day 510ish. Initial denial authority (July 18, 2023)