Saturday Updates

So they banned the President and they purged a whole bunch of other people from Twitter. Google and Apple are kicking Parler out of their ap store. We watched the tech lords this to Gab for years. Small Dead Animals says it's time to rebuild the old fashioned right-blogosphere. But the tech lords run Blogger, Word Press, etc. Every time we get the urge to say something political on FB, we post pics of our kids. Follow us at the above links in case this blog gets nuked. 

What are the odds this blog gets de-platformed?  Vox Day, an able man in the words of Sir Thomas More, is a heck of a lot more 'controversial' than us and he's still on Blogger. It wouldn't be hard for someone to find something here. We know this blog has been scanned by academic types and the media at Junkpedia. We suspect it has something to do with our work on behalf of Moscow. They pay many rubles, da.

In a few decades readers may be telling their grandkids the story this way, 'So a bunch of MAGA types stormed Capitol Hill. The next big thing was the banning of the president, after that, things just got worse and the next week...' 

First slowly, then all at once.

On to the things.

William Stroock dot Blogspot dot com is pleased to announce the first in a series of articles at 19fortyfive.com, What if Bush never Reversed Saddam's Invasion of Kuwait?: "Ten years after Saddam Hussein conquered Kuwait, it is clear he changed the Middle East as thoroughly as the First World War changed Europe. When Saddam invaded Kuwait on August 2nd, 1990, realists in the White House argued the U.S. could still deal with Saddam. A strong Saddam was in the interests of the United States, they said, a secular bulwark against Iranian Islamic Fundamentalism. With an economic recession on the horizon, and wanting to avoid war, President George HW Bush sided with the realists. Conservative firebrand Pat Buchanan, a fierce critic of Bush’s tax hikes, applauded the move. ‘America first!’ he shouted. ‘Chamberlain!’ the interventionists shouted back..." Click on through.

Longtime reader(s) may recall Decision Games put someone else's name on the games we designed and then stiffed us. We told them to buzz off. They've been sitting on pieces of ours for over a decade now.  Last year they sent out a new contract which we didn't return. That should've be the end of it. Nevertheless, hahahahhaha, yesterday we got a pay voucher in the mail for an article appearing in Strategy & Tactics Magazine.  Decision Games being Decision Games, the voucher doesn't tell us which article is being published, just the word length. We think it might be a piece on Stilwell we wrote, like, in the 2000s. Oh Decision Games, don't ever change.

Hmmm... book sales overall are doing great, sales of Nederland are lagging though. What's up with that? Ah....the KU reads are down but the Kindle copy sales are up. So it's a wash. Overall KU reads have doubled so far this year over the last week of December. Thanks, readers.

Things went swimmingly with The Great Nuclear War of 1975. The book is now 115,000 words and counting. The foreign scenes are adding the thing that the book was missing. Just a little more context, a little more international flavor. There are several UK scenes as the PM tries to put things back together at home and with the Commonwealth. We've added an Argentina scene. Yeah we might go there. We'll see. Does Maggie say, aw fuck it and nuke them at port? This would be a chance for a submarine sequence. We must dwell on this. We have a Rockefeller related plot line we may add. They find his daughter and she becomes First Lady. We feel bad for the man, he's lost everything.

In World War 1990: The Final Storm we've added a Far East chapter that covers the Japanese and brings back the Australians. We also spent a lot of time writing pilot briefing scenes. 'OK, here's what we're bombing guys!' We need to do a general home front updating chapter just to bring back a few people.