Day 763
Lukashenko and his poodles
Not many clouds in the sky this morning on Sophia Square.
The Belarusian generalissmo, today a mountain of marbled lard, met with his top military brass to discuss plans to invade the Suwałki Gap, also known as the Suwałki corridor, a sparsely populated area around the border between Lithuania and Poland that is the shortest path between Belarus and the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad region on the Polish side of the border.
I have pictures chatting up Lukashenko 30 years ago when he had more hair, but all I could find on short notice is what Sergei Grits snapped at the post pow-wow-with-dictator beano in Minsk. Evgeniy Budinas and his wife Lera are chatting in the background.
On the Ukraine jacket, yesterday Z sacked National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov, replacing him with the head of country’s foreign intelligence service, Oleksandr Litvinenko. It’s part of Z’s re-booting whatever. The word on the street is that Danilov will be appointed ambo to Norway.
In Moscow, meanwhile, fallout from last week’s massacre at the Crocus City Hall mall in Moscow by ISIS-K featured remarks by Putin implicating Ukraine.
On the Ukraine jacket, I read a screwy article about issuing war bonds to help pay for zillions of dollars worth of defense-related stuff.
Dunno. $50 billion is a drop in the bucket of what’s needed.
And, finally, to put us all in a good mood, uawarinfographics has posted this illustration showing how many minutes it takes for the hypersonic glide missile Zircon to reach various locations in un-occupied Ukraine. Only six minutes to Kyiv!