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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Sunday, May 22, 2022

What's really happening in the Russo-Ukrainian War

What's really happening in the Russo-Ukrainian War is precisely what usually happens when Russia goes to war. Russia wins by slogging it out, and wearing down their opponents. Russia wins by superior discipline and centralized control. Actually, that's exactly what happened the last time the Russians and the Ukrainians fought it out, back in 1943, at Stalingrad, when the Ukrainians fought alongside their "liberators", the Nazis, against their "oppressors", the Russians. The Russians are surgically isolating and strangling their remaining objectives in the Donbas region, despite the massive airlift of NATO weapons to the Ukrainian forces. I guess those weapons aren't so great after all, are they? There's something else going on, that has been predicted in the Russian media. Poland is talking about "joint citizenship" for Polish and Ukrainian citizens. The Russians have been predicting for some time that Poland and Hungary would divide up the Western portions of the Ukraine, between them. I guess national borders aren't so inviolable after all, are they? Both the Russian and the Western media have been pumping disinformation like its going out of style, of course. That's war. What we have to face, is that nothing has really changed very much, over the years. Wars are fought for power and self-interest, and the stronger party usually wins. That's life, my friends. What's really happening is that Ukraine is being systematically split up between Poland and Russia. Get used to it. Ukraine has ceased to exist.

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