War For Our Time
"You can sit somewhere in an office in Washington and have a cup of tea for 10 minutes, and for 10 minutes here they can do 10 airstrikes and kill dozens of people," Vsevolod Kozhemyako told The Washington Post.
Kozhemyako's the founder of Khartia -- "charter" -- a Ukrainian brigade that began in 2022 as a light infantry battalion funded entirely by Kozhemyako, a billionaire. In hryvnia terms, anyway.
His point -- and the Post's point in the linked article -- was that the two-week delay betwee
The amount of wasted (human and financial) capital that 2 guys (Xi and Putin) cost the world is… awe inspiring in some ways. I wish there was a hell so they could burn in it for all eternity…
Don’t short sell America. We’re quite adept at burning up money and wasting lives in pursuit of… well, honestly we usually don’t know what we’re pursuing. In pursuit of something.
Here comes another “ally” pushing us into war. Check out Bongbong Marcos statement to the IISS Shangri-la security conference in Singapore last friday:
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has warned Beijing that if a Philippine citizen were to be deliberately killed in a clash with the China Coast Guard, this would be “very close to what we define as an act of war.”
Should the incidents in the South China Sea get to that point, “we would have certainly crossed the Rubicon.”
“Is that a red line? Almost certainly. It’s going to be a red line,” added the Philippine leader, warning that Manila would respond “accordingly” while its treaty ally, the United States, would hold “the same standard” and support the Philippines in any joint action.
Uh, thank you Bongbang. Thank you for telling Americans we will go to war for you.
Inconvenient truths are piling up…