Day 919
Safe? No. Reliable? Nope.
In recent years I have grown to resent the EUC: the seat, the drag-and-drop, speed tilt-back and BMS cut-out. The electric unicycle is of course indispensible for some exhibitionists, but for navigating downtown Kyiv it’s like using chopsticks to pull books off of shelves. It is irritating to have to constantly dismount at traffic lights and twist around in your tight-fitting neon green flourescent hot pants. The physics of being on one wheel is inherently unstable, like most of the tattoo artists who ride them.
Ukraine’s strategy for winning the war has boiled down asking Uncle Joe for more stuff and permission to use it.
Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Andriy Yermak, and Defence Minister Rustem Umerov are scheduled to visit the United States, where they will try to persuade US officials to lift restrictions on strikes on Russia with US long-range weapons and hand over a list of priority targets in Russia to the White House.
There are at least two questions US officials should ask them:
Why didn’t Ukraine build fall-back defensive positions in Donbas?
What were UAH billions allocated to fall-back defensive positions in Donbas spent on?
A possible third question might be, “What the fuck is wrong with you and your president?”
The big pink blob continues growing larger.
Ukraine faces the anihilation of its entire southern group of forces in the region, not just the capture of Pokrovsk. As of this writing, the only option is to evacuate as many people as possible as quickly as possible.
If you don’t believe me, ask Stanislav.
Or Ollie:
Or better ask Николаевский Ванёк, who has over 2 million followers on Telegram.
[…] Given the absolutely fucked-up communication from bottom to top, when commanders in the field are reporting who the fuck knows knows what to their superiors — and this is the case absolutely in ALL axis (except two, and that's because they changed the commanders there, appointing competent ones) — we may not be ready for the next fuck-up, and, again, we will have put out another “fire,” pulling important units from rest/preparation ahead of time. […]
So, basically, almost total chaos, a command-and-control, er, breakdown.
I just searched this Substack for “fortifications.”
On Day 646, we wrote1:
Apparently not.
I would love to be able to just go to an EDM club with you so it would just be the beat, the sound with none of the real world for a few hours.
Do people dance solo like in Germany I hope?