We don't have much to say about the weekend NFL playoff games, except that we agree with a friend's assessment that this was the best playoff weekend ever. Three games decided by a last second field goal and one by a touchdown makes for a pretty exciting round of playoff football. That being said the Chiefs and Bills scoring something like 25 points in the last two minutes of a game is not a good thing. The rules obviously favor the passing game and could use tweaking. Of course the NFL will do nothing because Roger Goodell is....well, not good for the game.
Semi-ironically we're working on our SAS raid in The Final Storm and will complete said scene by Friday. We are jettisoning most of what was previously written. If you people haven't figured out what our SAS sub-plot has been leading too, not to mention the general theme of this post...Those of you who know us on FB know where we're headed. Anyone remember how the SAS was in the air, heading for the Polish presidential palace in Polish Storm? If a West Germany teenager can fly a plane to the target, why can't the SAS do the same?
19Fortyfive has a long and interesting piece on the revolution in Russian military affairs, Putin's Syria intervention, and his looming invasion of Ukraine. Author Anna Borshchevskaya goes into some detail about how Soviet doctrine and equipment failed in Desert Storm, exposing the Soviets overall weakness. Something we've shown extensively in the World War 1990 series. Borshchevskaya writes that the Ruskis studied Desert Storm and their plan for an invasion of Ukraine draws on lessons learned.
Those interested can read our own Russia Rising, a 2008 report on the Russian/Georgian War: 'The Russian military is undergoing a transformation that will fundamentally alter its organization and the way it fights. In the coming decades, the blunt instrument that destroyed the Whermacht, was poised to steamroll Western Europe and utterly annihilated Chechnya will be no more. Under the directorship of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, the Russian army is becoming smaller, mobile, and professionalized.'
Normally we link to our Russian collusion at Inforos. As the site is still down, this morning we link over at sister publication (and on all kinds of 'misinformation' lists itself), Infobrics: 'During the first half of 2021, Biden enjoyed decent approval ratings. On August 1st Biden’s Real Clear Politics poll of polls had Biden’s approval at 51.3%. The Afghanistan fiasco later in August caused a crisis in confidence among Americans and crashed Biden’s approval ratings. Those ratings have fallen steadily since, and show no signs of improving. A poll taken this week by the Associated Press gives Biden an approval rating of 43%. Another poll this week by Rasmussen Reports has Biden’s approval rating still lower at 40%. Overall Biden’s approval rating stands at 40.9% in the Real Clear Politics poll of polls. An Economist/YouGov Poll shows that 64% of Americans believe America is on the wrong track. And with good reason....' Click on over for a different form of collusion. Okay, we'll admit it. Infobrics is better looking than Inforos.
We've been listening to Billy Joel's albums of late. Not just the hits but the deep tracks, which we admit to not knowing at all. We have little positive to say about what we've heard. Soft-rocker indeed and a manic-depressive to boot! For Monday (not) Metal, let's synch things to current events and get in the mood . Below, Billy Joel playing Back in the USSR in...the USSR, Moscow, 1987:
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