Monica Showalter
DESPERATE DEMS’ DESIRE FOR WAR
Tucker Carlson's opening monologue on Monday night was a wake-up call to Americans: the Democrat political class, with help from (or no opposition from) Republicans, seems determined to bring America into a direct conflict with Russia. He points out that the Democrats' warmongering is so extreme that even Noam Chomsky longs for Trump to be back in the White House. He recognizes that Trump, whom he dislikes, would keep us off the path of a hot war with Russia.
Tucker rightly traces the Democrats' fulminating hostility toward Putin to the 2016 election. Hillary and her cohorts created the lie that Putin put Trump in office. Now, despite having the lie repeatedly disproven, Democrats have come to believe this lie. They want revenge. They also simply want war.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY KNOWING HOW TO TELL THE TRUTH
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is one of the foundations of trust; lying leads to greater distrust. When we lie, we’re not as sneaky as we may think. People figure it out eventually, and they trust us less. Our relationships suffer dearly for it.
This is common sense, but here's where this can get tricky: I have colleagues who believe that if we don't express every feeling or impulse, that we're being dishonest. By this philosophy, the whole concept of honesty and authenticity becomes nebulous. By this way of thinking, if we don't express literally everything that goes through our mind, we can't be honest.
This is of course ridiculous. To be honest is not to be brainless. To be honest does not mean that we let fly anything that comes to mind.
Honesty is one facet of integrity. To have integrity is to integrate our thoughts, feelings, experience, values, and knowledge. In other words, real honesty requires consciousness.
HALF-FULL REPORT 04/29/22
Is Russia’s Nuclear Arsenal a Paper Tiger?
Jack Wheeler is in Khatmandu, leading a helicopter expedition to the top of Mt. Everest.
Guest Author Mike Ryan addresses this critical question as Putin threatens to use his nukes against the United States and Europe for supporting Ukraine.
We cannot afford to get this question wrong, but fortunately, the United States has brilliant physicists looking at the question from many angles.
We all watched the propaganda explode when Russia invaded Ukraine, and so did the rest.
In about two months, the consequences have included a collapse of CNN revenues and a change of ownership at Twitter. Zuck is in trouble, and Soros can’t get anyone to take his calls.
How did this happen? Zelenskyy introduced a new leadership style with politicians everywhere throwing out their late 20th Century neoliberal style.
But we knew this would happen because we talked about it on the forum at length. TTPers had a heads up long before the rest of the world.
We are running out of Jevelin missiles and can’t make them fast enough. This is a problem.
Kremlinologist Condoleeza Rice had a one-hour conversation on Putin and the war, turning out to be a replay of the Battle of Kursk.
All this and more in this weeks Half Full Report.
SKYES LINKS 042822
Google is using G-Mail to tamper with the midterms, by tagging Republican campaign emails as “spam” 8.5 times as much as Dem ones:
Musk buys Twitter:
Elon Wins: Twitter to Be Sold to Elon Musk
The tears and fears are all about loss of 'Crat control:
The Apocalyptic Reaction to Musk Is All About Thought Control
More:
Twitter Locks Down Changes to Platform to Prevent Employee Sabotage After Musk Buyout
ZELENSKY – HOW THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD LEADS HIS COUNTRY
This account of Zelensky at war is based on interviews with him and nearly a dozen of his aides. His mission, he told me, is to make the free world experience this war the way Ukraine does: as a matter of its own survival.
He seems to be pulling it off. The U.S. and Europe have rushed to his aid, providing more weapons to Ukraine than they have given any other country since World War II. Thousands of journalists have come to Kyiv, filling the inboxes of his staff with interview requests.
My request was not just for a chance to question the President. It was to see the war the way he and his team have experienced it. Over two weeks in April, they allowed me to do that in the presidential compound on Bankova Street, to observe their routines and hang around the offices where they now live and work. Here is what I saw and learned.
POLITICS IS DOWNSTREAM FROM CULTURE… BUT WHAT IS CULTURE DOWNSTREAM FROM?
In classical, pro-God America, the inspiration for a civilization of freedom and equality came from the unifying assumptions of theistic belief. The assumptive belief in God and in the universal divine nature of all humans enabled the generation of a predominantly uplifting culture, which in turn was upstream from a generally lawfully and respectfully conducted political process.
That one nation under God has been irrevocably broken into two, irreconcilable American civilizations, one based in life and the other based in death.
Why did the civilization of this one nation under God, the greatest constitutional republic in world history, come to be degraded and broken by the Democrats and the Left? Here’s how: culture is now downstream from politics.
IS JOE BIDEN ABOUT TO GET AL CAPONED?
Al Capone mugshot Aug. 22, 1934
Al Capone was one of the early 20th century’s most infamous gangsters but that wasn’t why he ended up in Alcatraz. Instead, what the feds finally got him on was tax evasion.
In Joe Biden’s case, although the facts are a bit different because the problem isn’t one of tax evasion but one of mysteriously reported taxable income, it does appear that we may finally be getting proof that Joe was deeply involved in Hunter’s overseas dealings and may have been doing influence peddling from the White House.
The message could be coming to Joe to resign now before he get’s Al Caponed. Then again, he may up that way anyhow.
ARE THE DEMS AND CHEATIN’ JOE UP TO THEIR OLD TRICKS?
Over the last 16 tortuous months of the Biden presidency, it’s become clear that the Democrats are running on empty.
They are not even trying to reset their electorally poisonous policies.
But while they might not be any good at governing, when it comes to seizing power by foul means or fair, they are world-class. Which brings us to how the stole the 2020 election from President Trump.
The most compelling evidence to date has emerged in “2000 Mules,” the upcoming documentary by conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, who draws on research by election integrity group True The Vote to expose suspicious ballot harvesting.
FRAUD IS THE ONLY ISSUE
With no actual accomplishments to point to, having ruined everything that was running so well for the American people, Democrats are turning to what has become their most effective electoral tool in recent years: Fraud.
They did a magnificent job of perpetrating a total fraud on the country in the 2020 Presidential election. We all know what they did and what they got away with. The big question is what have the Republicans done to ensure that this degree of election-stealing fraud doesn’t happen again?
Unfortunately, it seems Republicans have done essentially nothing truly significant to stop Democrat vote fraud. All the really major drivers of Democrat vote fraud still appear to be in place. Here they are:
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY MASTERING ENTROPY
Entropy is a term from physics that describes the tendency for matter to move from order into disorder. Life can be seen as deliberately working against entropy.
For most living creatures, instincts take charge of a lot of the necessary ordering which life requires; finding food, mating, sleep cycles, protective behavior, etc. But we humans are different in a fundamental way: our basic survival tool is our mind, and unlike instinctual animals, we can choose to use our basic tool of survival... or not.
Let’s talk how we can make that choice and overcome entropy in the process.
SKYE’S LINKS 04/21/22
Latest on Musk versus Twitter censorship:
Musk Speaking To Co-Investors As Twitter Board Adopts "Poison Pill" To Thwart Hostile Takeover
Good comments on Musk and Twitter from I guy I frequently disagree with:
Elon Musk's Bid Reveals Twitter Is The Poison Pill To Be Cured
This is going to make Putin really popular with his FSB (the KGB with smaller hats). And these are the guys he assigns assassinations to. How well are you sleeping these nights, Vlad?
Putin Purges 150 Intelligence Agents For Ukraine Failures
HOW AMERICA BECAME LA-LA LAND
America these last 14 months resembles a dystopia. It is becoming partly the world of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, partly the poet Homer’s land of the Lotus-Eaters.
Nothing seems to be working. And no one in control seems to care.
What explains an America that suddenly no longer works? Here are three reasons.
I’M DONE TALKING
Nance told Reid that he joined the International Legion of Territorial Defense in Ukraine.
"The more I saw of the war going on, the more I thought, I'm done talking.It's time to take action here. So, about a month ago, I joined the international legion here in Ukraine, and I am here to help this country fight, you know, what essentially is a war of extermination."
WHY ARE WOMEN UNHAPPY?
A little over a decade ago, two researchers at Wharton published a paper showing that, despite women’s increasing work and educational opportunities, their self-reported happiness was in steady decline. Back in 1970, women were on average happier than men; they are now less happy than men.
Broadly, since 1970, everyone has gotten more miserable. But the decline in women’s overall happiness has outpaced men’s, and the happiness curve inverted sometime in the early 1990s. The paper also documents increasing anxiety and neuroticism, as well as decreasing social cohesion among women.
The researchers couldn’t come up with a good explanation for their observations. So here’s mine:
Maybe women don’t want to fill traditionally male roles. Is it conceivable (or is it inconceivable) that women have traditionally lived a certain way and derived happiness from certain things not because they were weak and forced into it by men, but because that is what they actually preferred?
UKRAINE AND THE END OF RUSSIA
Russia’s impending doom is a driving force to invading Ukraine.
For centuries, Russia’s rulers have thought Russia’s border regions are indefensible. There are few geographic barriers to block potential invasion, forcing the Russians with their dwindling numbers to attempt to defend massive stretches of territory.
What barriers the Russians do have now — Crimea and the Caucasus come to mind — are only because of the sort of strategic adventurism that Putin is now threatening to Ukraine as a whole.
There is a method to the madness. To paraphrase Catherine the Great, Russia can expand, or Russia can die. Today, that means Russia is going to die.
CHINA’S BEST DAYS ARE BEHIND IT
[Michael Beckley is a Professor of political science at Tufts University. He is gaining international recognition for his insightfulness and meticulous research on global power politics. Here he presents a short synopsis of China’s serious shortcomings]
KEEPING YOUR SANITY WITH TIME WELL SPENT
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. - TS Eliot, Burnt Norton
Time is a continuous, objectively measurable forward movement. We measure it with the rotation of the earth, the orbit of the earth about the sun, and the tilt of her axis relative to that sun as we make our way about it, seen through the changing seasons.
While the mechanics of time in a basic way are well understood, our experience of time and our relationship to time is complex, and can hold the key to our experience of life itself.
Phil Zimbardo, Professor Emeritus of Stanford and author of "The Time Cure describes 6 different time orientations. Our happiness is dependent to a large degree on our relationship to these 6 different time orientations (you can take the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory here).
SKYE’S LINKS 04/14/22
Now we know why Elon refused his offered Twitter board seat, as it required him to agree not to acquire more than a total of 14.9% of Twitter stock. Today (4/14) he made an offer to buy 100% of Twitter stock and turn it into his own private company. Can you imagine how catatonic this is making Twitter’s army of snowflake fascists who are paid big bucks to ban conservatives? Goodbye to them!
Elon Musk Offers To Buy Twitter, Take It Private
Michigan Militia alleged kidnapping conspiracy case collapses:
Welcome to the new dark ages - where math is racist:
THE DECISIVE MOMENT IN UKRAINE
“FREEDOM MUST BE ARMED BETTER THAN TYRANNY” --Volodymyr Zelensky
The relatively brief but bloody war in Ukraine is entering its fourth and possibly decisive phase.For those of us born after World War II, this is the most consequential war of our lifetime. Upon its outcome rests the future of European stability and prosperity.
The Russian military—revealed as inept at tactics, unimaginative in operational design, obtuse in strategy, and incompetent at basic logistics and maintenance—can do only two things well: vomit out massive amounts of firepower and brutalize civilians.
Putin and his senior advisers, as stewards of a military that cannot adequately care for its wounded and that abandons its dead, don’t care about the human price they are paying. And so Putin will order offensives that, if confronted by a well-resourced Ukrainian foe, can effectively destroy his own army.
The challenge for the West is to ensure that this is its fate.
UKRAINE HAS JOINED NATO WHETHER RUSSIA LIKES IT OR NOT
Last Thursday (4/07), the NATO foreign ministers met in an emergency session about Russia’s increasingly horrific and atrocity-filled invasion of Ukraine. However, unlike most NATO meetings, this one was substantive. The main issue on the table was weaponry. Quantity, quality, and purpose were all concerns. To date, the weaponry supplied to Ukraine has been defensive.
No more. Game-changing weapons began to flow to Ukraine immediately after the meeting.
Further, the attendees were not only NATO nations; there were also observers present: the European Union, Sweden, Finland, Georgia, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and Ukraine. If Putin was afraid of being surrounded before, he should take a quick look at his map now.
A very insightful statement came from Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba: “I think the deal that Ukraine is offering is fair. You give us weapons, we sacrifice our lives, and the war is contained in Ukraine.”
All of the actions taken by NATO countries indicate they have agreed to Mr. Kuleba’s deal.
TO SECURE THE BORDER, TEXAS GOV GREG ABBOTT SHOULD SHUT IT DOWN
AMERICA IS OUR COUNTRY NOT THEIRS
Title 42 is the last remaining tool the federal government has to control record-high levels of illegal immigration. Every other policy the Trump administration implemented to secure the border has been rescinded or neutered by Biden, and on May 23, Title 42 will be gone too.
What’s coming, in other words, is a border surge of historic and almost unimaginable proportions, and it is happening as a direct result of Biden’s policy choices. The crisis about to unfold is 100 percent avoidable, and 100 percent Biden’s fault.
If Abbott were serious about securing the border, he wouldn’t announce a plan to transport migrants to Washington but a plan to take them back to Mexico -- immediamente. Here’s how he can.
RUSSIA IS A FAKE POWER
Winston Churchill famously called Russia "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." A more accurate description of the current Russian Federation is a forgery wrapped in a deception inside a lie.
Numerous analysts have focused on Moscow’s campaign of disinformation to undermine the West, but they have barely noticed that the most important subject of disinformation is Russia itself. Moscow has a long record of deceiving Westerners and depicting its empire as invincible.
In a previous imperial incarnation, Soviet communism and socialist internationalism were supposed to ensure salvation for all humanity. Until, that is, they were exposed as a fraud. Today’s Russia has created an image of great power status, economic strength, and military power that is rapidly unraveling in Ukraine. This is revealing that the Russian state structure itself stands on rotting foundations.
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY KNOWING WHAT MATTERS TO YOU
Changing behavior, learning new skills, overcoming personal limitations, all take consciousness, time and willpower.
Willpower works like a muscle: it strengthens with use over time, but it also takes energy. When our reserves get depleted – through fatigue, hunger, or overuse – it can weaken. But what if we have to do things anyway?
I think we’ve all been there at some point, and somehow we rise to the occasion. How can this be when our willpower is spent? What makes the difference?
What it all comes down to is that we care enough. Big things can happen when something matters enough to us.
THE NIHILIST OMELETTE OF THE LEFT
The last 14 months have offered one of the rare occasions in recent American history when the hard Left has operated all the levers of federal government. The presidency, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the permanent bureaucratic state are all in progressive hands.
And the result is a disaster that is uniting Americans in their revulsion of elitists whose crazy ideas are tearing apart the fabric of the country.
In pursuit of its nihilist utopian omelet, the Left cares little about the millions of middle-class Americans it must break to make it.
The result is an unmitigated disaster that not only has tarred the Democrat Party, corrupted once-revered agencies, and alienated half the country from our cultural institutions, but now endangers the very health and security of the United States.
SKYE’S LINKS 04/07/22
No doubt about it – The Babylon Bee is the absolute best satire site on the Internet, just see the above. But this is a real BB news story:
Free speech absolutist Elon Musk buys largest chunk of Twitter stock, and the Woke are freaking out:
Liberals Rattled After Elon Musk Joins Twitter Board.
Or as The Babylon Bee reports it:
[Note by Jack – this is Skye’s best yet – you’ve got to read it entire!]
PROOF FROM THE WHITE HOUSE THAT BIDENS PRESIDENCY IS OVER
In fact, it left me with an admittedly wild theory about how Obama may intend to fix things: Obama’s aiming to get back into the Oval Office. Here’s how he can do it, without violating the 22nd Amendment. There are three steps to return Obama to the presidency:
THE MORAL COLLAPSE OF MITT ROMNEY
Mitt Romney is thoroughly damaged by Trump derangement. This has been evident for a long time over the last four years, but his vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson is a bridge too far.
For a man of the Mormon faith to accept a judge who is perennially partial to purveyors of child pornography is incomprehensible. How does a man with five sons and twenty-four grandchildren suffer from the same Woke blind spot as Judge Jackson?
Romney's purported religious faith must be fake; if it were real and true, he would be unable to vote to confirm Jackson.
A RED TSUNAMI NEEDS AN AMERICA FIRST PLAN
America has had enough of the disastrous leftist policies of the Biden Administration. We must return to America First policies.
After American voters clean Biden’s Democrat henchmen out of the United States House of Representatives in November’s elections, they will want to see action on the part of incoming Republicans.
It isn’t enough for Republicans to remind voters that Democrats have lost their soul as a party. Republicans must have an affirmative, positive platform that can be implemented. The plan must enact real policy changes while rolling back Biden’s harmful initiatives.
We need an America First Plan, a new contract with America. Our America First Plan must contain three sections: a brief assertion of positive policy initiatives—with legislation ready to go, a plan of how to achieve the objectives, and a list of the oversight actions that Republicans will take when we control committees.
“OK, GROOMER”
The spectacle of America’s cultural elite uniting to defend the propriety of child porn in school libraries, insisting that a gender ideology they had not even heard about until seven years ago must be taught to seven-year-olds, and a presidential administration publicly celebrating the breast amputation, genital mutilation, and sterilization of autistic children, should be utterly appalling to anyone with a shred of human decency.
This all has led some on the Right to finally try to do what the Left always does: coin a novel political epithet.
You’ve heard the catch-all dismissal insult of young know-nothings of any advocacy of normality by older people – “OK, Boomer”? Well, how about we turn some tables with a catch-all dismissal of what the Left is trying to do with our children – “OK, Groomer”?
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY KNOWING HOW TO WORRY EFFECTIVELY
Anticipating events to come so that we can take effective action is invaluable. But worry is a different animal. Worrying is ruminating about the future. In the same way that we can get stuck and helpless in painful memories from the past, worry is a passive, helpless stance in relation to events that may happen in the future; and it drains us of the energy and spirit to act effectively where we can.
So let’s take a step beyond Bob Marley’s advice to just “be happy” (while that’s a good first step!) and talk about how to take effective action when worrying.
BIDEN WAS RIGHT – PUTIN MUST BE DEFEATED
President Biden closed his speech in Warsaw March 26 with a ringing denunciation of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” he said, setting off a firestorm of criticism from around the world.
Well, it’s simply off the wall to say that calling for regime change in Russia is inappropriate. Putin has not merely called for regime change in Ukraine, he has launched a full-scale invasion and repeatedly sent squads of assassins to murder Ukraine’s elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
Putin has stated that he wants to restore the Russian and Soviet empires; and if he thinks he can get away with it, he’ll likely continue in that project. He therefore cannot be appeased. Each successful aggression leads to yet a more offensive one.
If he succeeds in conquering Ukraine, he will go for more, because his position will be stronger and the West — with Ukraine’s forces neutralized — will be weaker, and because he will have seen, once again, that the West is unwilling to fight.
So Biden spoke the truth: For the sake of world peace, Putin cannot be allowed to remain in power.
SKYE’S LINKS 03/31/22
Is this a Father-to-Son lecture between Senator Joe and Hunter? Guess the boy never listened – or knew the Dad was just doing his political grandstanding. So they went into the corruption business together – and now the piper is being paid.
Hunter Biden Dam About To Burst? WaPo, CNN Go Scorched Earth Over 'Laptop From Hell'
Bottom line: I don't think that this is merely rats deserting a sinking ship; I suspect that Xiden's puppeteers have decided that Sloppy Joe has got to go, and go before the midterms wipe out their control of Congress. Read on to see what just happened that proves this.
PUTIN REAPS A BITTER HARVEST IN UKRAINE
Thousands of Russian corpses litter Ukraine
When Russia invaded Ukraine, it was widely believed to have expected an easy victory over its neighbor.
But so far, Russia has little to show for what it has called its “special military operation.” Just over a month into the war, Moscow is facing unintended consequences of its aggression in Ukraine, ranging from high casualties among its troops to economic ruin for years to come.
Here are five of them, showing how Putin is reaping a poisonously bitter harvest in Ukraine.
THE EMBARRASSMENT OF BEING A DEMOCRAT ISN’T IMPROVING, IT’S GETTING WORSE
A year ago, were barely 2 months into the Harris/Biden administration and my Dem friends were getting a bit embarrassed about the leadership they had helped foist on the country.
My naïve friends had bought into the propaganda that all of the turmoil in Washington was because of Donald Trump. They voted for a return to normalcy. Only two months into this administration, they were embarrassed to see that they had been hoodwinked big time.
I predicted to my friends that their embarrassment and that being suffered by so many of their fellow Dems would turn to anger in time for the midterm elections. I was way off. We’re already into Category 3 Hurricane Anger already and rising.
THE SHEER MADNESS OF THE LEFT TODAY
Madness! Madness!" — The Bridge on the River Kwai
With that exclamation, director David Lean ended his epic film about a dutiful but vainglorious British officer who sought to display to his Japanese captors superior British discipline and morale in a prisoner of war camp.As proof of British engineering superiority, he pursues his agendas by ordering his POWs to build for their Japanese captors a strategic bridge that otherwise they could not have built—only to try to destroy the efforts of fellow Allied soldiers sent to blow-up his masterpiece. For the delusional ideologue, reality must never intrude.
So it is now. When the rock of green and woke ideology hits the hard place of reality, sheer madness always results. Here’s how.
THE FIRST TO FALL – COULD THE EURO BEAT THE YEN TO THE CURRENCY GRAVEYARD?
Considering all of Europe's problems the big issue is envisioning a scenario from which an economic renaissance might flow.
To say the Euro-zone banking system deception which has been going on for many years is continuing understates the size of the fraud occurring before our eyes.
For years Japan has been the poster child and living proof that low-interest rates do not guarantee economic growth and prosperity. Going unnoticed by many investors is that the BOJ has been pumping up Japan's stock market by buying into the ETF market.
So which goes first, the euro or the yen. As Ludwig Von Mises wrote; "The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved."
KEEPING YOUR SANITY BY UNDERSTANDING SELF-ESTEEM
In a study by Jean Twenge of San Diego State University, she found that college kids today are more likely to call themselves gifted and driven to succeed, while their test scores and hours spent studying are decreasing. Their tendency toward narcissism has also increased over the last 30 years.
Today I want to look at what I consider one of the sources of this trend: the phony self-esteem movement.
Many years ago, when I was young psychology graduate student studying with Nathaniel Branden, I remember him talking one day about how he had been invited to be part of The California Task Force to Promote Self-Esteem, led by California State Assemblyman John Vasconcelos.
Nathaniel couldn’t see why he would be involved in that, since he did not see a role for government in the development of self-esteem. Nonetheless, the Task Force carried on, and created guidelines for building "self-esteem" in a way that Branden would never have advocated. For these guidelines are causing the mess so many college kids are in today.
SKYE’S LINKS 03/24/22
How to hit the ground running; House GOP members train and prepare to launch an onslaught of oversight investigations in 2023:
Russia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan – The West’s unanimity in punishing Putin are a shocking wakeup call for Xi regarding Taiwan:
China Wins A Little, Loses A Lot From Russia’s War On Ukraine
China's plans for Russia:
GOP Rep. Palmer: China's Intent Is to Make Russia a Vassal State
KETANJI JACKSON IS TOO SUPREMELY STUPID TO BE A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
Even before Ketanji Brown Jackson's extraordinary statement that she does not know what a woman is, I'd concluded that she's a dim bulb and, really, the judicial equivalent of Kamala Harris: an uninspiring Black woman who's floated effortlessly upward through affirmative action and fealty to leftism.
I'd spent the day mentally writing an attack on her, only to see Tucker Carlson hold forth with an incendiary monologue that attacked her "I'm not a biologist" lunacy, the whole transgender madness that the left is advancing, and the real agenda of remaking society in an ugly way, especially through the death of free speech.
I’m posting it below since it’s over 15 minutes long, so please finish reading me before you watch him, okay? Here we go…
WHEN WILL THE WEST SEE THAT UKRAINE IS WINNING?
One of thousands, died for nothing NATO: Up to 40,000 Russian Troops Killed, Wounded, Taken Prisoner or Missing in Ukraine Wall Street Journal March 23, 2022
When I visited Iraq during the 2007 surge, I discovered that the conventional wisdom in Washington usually lagged the view from the field by two to four weeks. Something similar applies today.
Analysts and commentators have grudgingly declared that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has been blocked, and that the war is stalemated. The more likely truth is that the Ukrainians are winning.
What follows is an analysis of how and why they are winning, how and why the Russians are losing, and why both will quite likely continue to do so.