Will Goes the Full Ruski

World War Woke is upon us. The West has cancelled Russian banks, TV channels, yachts, airplanes, gas stations, hockey players, Paralympians, writers, conductors and cats. The silliest, most retarded cancelation was Disney + removing Anastasia from its playlist. That'll show 'em!

This blog thinks it's time Joe intern Russian-Americans. Also the Jews, just to be on the safe side. 

Stroock's Books wonders if/when the cancellers will cancel us because of our Inforos writing. We emailed our KGB handler yesterday just to see how he was doing and also to ask if he or someone he knows wants to write something for Stroocks Books. That alone should warrant a raid by the Feds, no? We haven't heard back. We think he's not talking to us. 

We wrote several sympathetic Russian characters in the World War 1990 series. They better cancel those too. They wouldn't want anything to slip through, would they?

The media war narrative goes as follows. Ukraine's plucky, happy-go-lucky defenders are fending off the slow, plodding Russian bear. Accordingly, Putin's grip on power is slipping. Russians are protesting in the streets. The oligarchs are getting nervous. The Russian Orthodox Church is condemning Putin. We doubt it.

A lot of observers are coming around to our view of the war. Russia has made many missteps and Russian tactics suck.  However, the Russians are advancing and gradually wearing down the Ukes. The Ruskis have taken a fair bit of territory, haven't they? This piece at Zerohedge argues Putin isn't waging war against Ukraine alone, but the West and Davos as well; and is winning. 

Putin Watch: Putin going to his inauguration to the tune of....well, you'll just have to click:

What Will's Watching - The Power of the Dog: Benedict Cumberbatch plays Phil Burbank, a grizzled Montana rancher who knows everything about his trade and is mean as hell to everyone, especially his brother George (played with sensitivity and compassion by Jesse Plemons), whom he calls fatso. When George gets married to Rose (Kursten Dunst) Phil is jealous and resentful, especially toward her teenaged son, Peter, played shy and timid by Kodi Smit-McPhee. Phil tries to break Peter but ends up mentoring him in the ways of the ranch just as the legendary Bronco Henry did for Phil decades before. There's some homosexual tension here. Some have said The Power of the Dog's ending is ambiguous. We saw it right away and we ain't no film guy. Filmed in the beautiful New Zealand countryside looking for all the world like Montana. The dog is Montana and the rancher's way of life. Rewatchable 4/4

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