Ukraine has already told the Russian draftees to surrender, and they will be treated well. A bit of sabotage here and there will help the Russian army fall apart faster. Ukraine is going to need some serious POW facilities.
On Putin threatening nukes, didn’t Russia give Ukraine their independence from the USSR when Ukraine surrendered their nuclear weapons to Russia? It’s been a while. Here is is:
Budapest Memorandum:
Pod Save America had a ad-judging show that included a sort-of former Republican consultant who mentioned that after 1/6 a lot of his continuing supporters shifted to where they said maybe it’s time for him and us to move on, and maybe he shouldn’t run in '24, let’s see about this DeSantis guy and so forth. They didn’t stop liking him, but they quietly had decided that he probably wasn’t quite the right person to be president.
Now this is cool. They’ve got some spiffy tech over in sunflower land.
Birchers even said Ronald Reagan was a second echelon member of the international communist conspiracy. But those bircher guys were dismissed as part of the so-called fruitcake right. Those were the days indeed. Today’s Q-wacks make the fruitcakes of yesteryear look like intellectual giants of some pantheon of perspicacity, and they’re not fringe, they’re mainstream Republicans. Kids these days.
10 day forecast Kherson
Not freezing yet, and no rain. But with that humidity and nightly temperature swing, everything will be soaked with dew before sunrise.
Now the guys in that clip were said to be in Omsk, in southwestern Siberia, just north of Kazakstan. It’s roughly parallel to Belarus, but no idea what the climate is like. I’ll bet it’s not balmy enough at night to want to sleep out under the stars without even a damn sleeping bag.
Mystical multidimensional-opening sling ring looks a lot like brass knuckles…just saying.
Perhaps to make being dropped off at the front with rotten rations and crapped out equipment something to look forward to… poor bastards
Omsk 10 day forecast
Heckuva job, Pootie.
Apparently he was, since all the modern Republicans worship Putin.
And fellow travelers.
The thing that should scare the crap out of Russia is our MICC* has enough funding to actually produce the weapons while also funding vast corruption. That’s why nations need a prosperous middle class cash cow to cough up the tax Dollars. * The extra C is for Congressional.
I guess CPAC’s version of aid to Ukraine is “thoughts and prayers.”
Are our memories so short? The NRA was a HUGE funnel of Russian* money into GOP coffers. Does anyone think that’s stopped?
ETA: * Don’t confuse Russian gov’t money with Russian mob/oligarch money. There’s plenty of the latter to go around, still.
Proselytizing American fascism far and wide?
CPAC had better rejoin the union or we’ll sic Ukrainians on them : - )
They seem to have a knack for dealing with authoritarians, that’s for god-damn sure. 
Exactly right about Americans and American history.
About the Germans and WW2 and the holocaust, things are much much better but still have been seriously problematic for decades. I highly recommend
The author notes:
“Reckonings seeks to explore the disjuncture between official myths about dealing with the past, on the one hand, and the extent to which the vast majority of Nazi perpetrators evaded justice, on the other.”
Then, there are the Brits and their history of vileness with their empire. They are every but as bad – if not worse – than the Americans in not facing up to their own disgusting history. On that score, I highly recommend:
ETA
Mary Fulbrook provides an important and authoritative corrective to weird apologists like Peter Hayes and his book “Why? Explaining the Holocaust”.
Thanks for these suggestions Dominic. I’m going to request Reckonings from the library tomorrow.
Make no mistake about it. They may call themselves CPAC but in reality they are…
CCCPAC
