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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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Friday, June 03, 2022

The significance of Russia's overwhelming victory over NATO forces in Ukraine

Russia has achieved total victory over NATO forces in Ukraine. They control or have encircled all areas of Donbas. They control completely Ukraine's Black Sea coast, with the exception of far west Odessa, which is totally blockaded by Russian forces, and poses no further threat. Russia is in the process of annexing the 20% of Ukraine's territory and population that they have conquered, which is virtually all that they can absorb and process in the next ten or twenty years, and all that they want. Russia has achieved all of their military objectives in Ukraine, with the exception of removing the government of President Zelensky, due to the massive infusion and airlift of tens of billions of dollars of NATO weapons to Ukraine. Nevertheless, the Western media insists that we have a situation of "stalemate", in Ukraine, that the "battle goes on", in "bloody trench warfare". This is nonsense. Russia has won, and Russia has won overwhelmingly, despite using a mere fraction of their military forces in a nation as big and populous as France, Germany or Britain. Which is likely why the Western media doesn't wish to admit to the truth of the situation. The truth is that Russia is obviously in a position to overwhelm NATO's military forces in the rest of Europe anytime they wish to. The NATO weapons are OK, but nothing to brag about. They won't stop the Russians, obviously. The fact is, the Pax Americana is over. Nuclear weapons are unusable, and the technological edge in conventional weaponry America had held from the time of the first Gulf War in 1991 is gone. Russian weapons are as good, or better, than NATO weapons. So, we have President Biden assuring Taiwan that America will send American troops to defend them if the Mainland attacks. In Beijing, Xi Jinping is on the floor laughing his guts out over this. How many troops will America send -- 10,000, 20,000, 100,000? They'd be lost in the downtown traffic in Beijing or Shanghai, no one would even notice them. And American weapons are no better than Chinese weapons anymore. The only thing that would deter China from invading Taiwan would be massive nuclear retaliation, nothing less. And how likely is it that America is going to end human civilization, over Taiwan? China hasn't invaded Taiwan, because they already control Taiwan, without having bothered to invade them. So, we have the Hague threatening the Russian leadership with "War Crimes Trials" for their "War Crimes". And we have President Zelensky of Ukraine prosecuting the one or two Russian soldiers he's beem able to get his hands on as "war criminals". The Russians are guilty of the "war crime" of winning a war, after all. So, I suppose, all war is a crime, after all. But, it isn't going away, is it now? And all the war crimes trials in the world won't change the fact that all's fair in love and war, and the winners can never be prosecuted for their "war crimes". Not until they start to lose again, anyway.

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