Tag: Russia

Not Dropping Bombs On ISIS Is Exactly What ISIS Wants

Shades of Neville Chamberlain's Phony War here:

U.S. President Finger-Up-His-Ass prohibits 75% of all American airstrikes on ISIS with excessively restrictive Rules Of Engagement

Meanwhile:

Russia has destroyed 500 ISIS fuel trucks over the past few days.

Presumably, no warnings were issued beforehand…

Our Two Weapons Are Fear And Surprise … And Ruthless Efficiency

Russian prosecutors investigate citizens suspected of (Grammar) Nazi sympathies:

Back in May, prosecutors in Rostov questioned the organizer of a local spelling bee about whether he has any connections to so-called "grammar Nazis."

Grammar Nazi, of course, is a slang term for somebody who habitually — and often annoyingly — corrects other people's grammar. In recent years, it has developed into a satirical Internet meme, which uses imagery that vaguely resembles swastikas.

But prosecutors in Rostov didn't get the joke. They interrogated spelling bee organizer Aleksei Pavlovsky, asking him whether he believed people who make spelling and grammatical mistakes should be exterminated.

A Next Generation Captain For A Trek Classic Kind Of World

Obama vs. Putin:

An out-of-his-depth desk jockey from Star Fleet parleys with Klingons (while Kirk convalesces in Sick Bay).

CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK-CLICK

— Barack Obama desperately hitting Reset Button

The 1930s called. They want their foreign policy back.

Looks Like I Don’t Have To Praise The Devil After All

UPDATE: Russia's war for Assad.

But Russia went straight for Free Syrian Army (FSA)-branded, American-supported, nationalist rebels. One explanation is that…Putin intends to humiliate the United States and leave no room for doubt that this is a Russian victory at America’s expense.

How America’s Response To Nork, Russian And CHINESE Aggression Prevented World War III

The author contends the Korean War was initiated as a probing action to see how the West would respond to an Eastern Bloc invasion of (the more strategically-important) Yugoslavia.

If The Devil Fought ISIS, I’d Have A Few Kind Things To Say About The Devil

But did the Devil really have to be Vladimir freakin' Putin?

UPDATE (Sep 28 / 2015):

 

UPDATE (Sep 30 / 2015): Looks like I don't have to praise the Devil after all…

An Expat Russian’s Open Letter To His Former Countrymen

This part of Maksim Frank-Kamenetsky's letter is particularly astute:

"Russians are furious that Americans care about Crimea. It's a world away from them and a year ago no one in the United States had — and still has — the faintest idea where it's located. Russians don't understand this is not what it's all about. Americans don't give a damn about Crimea and they don't care a straw about Ukraine either (or about Russia, for that matter). But they do give a damn about stability in Europe. Americans are not good at geography, but they a have a good memory and they remember that twice in the 20th century thousands of American boys died in Europe because Europe was incapable of solving its own problems." [emphasis added]