Will's Good Idea for the Week of 3/27/22

This is the email we sent our KGB handler yesterday: 'I write in hopes of preserving peace for all mankind. Would you please tell Putin that Joe has a dementia addled pudding brain. What Joe vomits forth are not the coherent, well thought out words of a man in possession of his faculties. Joe always was a loudmouthed,  know nothing braggart. The senility makes him more so now. Please tell Putin to disregard Joe's talk of 'regime change'.  

Allah Pundit at Hot Air writes aptly and eloquently* about Joe's unbelievably colossal fuck up. What a powerful rhetorical weapon Joe has handed Vladimir. As Allah points out, Putin can now frame the war in Ukraine as a defensive war against Western encroachment. This blog has written time and again that NATO flirting with Ukraine was always a terrible, no good, lousy idea. Now Putin can point to Ukraine and say, 'See!' If you think 81 million people really voted for this fuckhead, then can I interest you in some Arkansas real-estate investment opportunities?

Will got bored:

I hadn't opened Axis and Allies Pacific in literally 20 years. I thought I'd thrown it out a few years ago and was on the verge of ordering another when I checked the basement shelf. There she was. I opened her up and found the pieces just where I sorted them in March of 2002. 

I played a round or four yesterday afternoon. As Japan, I whacked Pearl Harbor and then fought out a Greater East Asian strategy. By turn four it was clear America's economic might was too much to overcome. They had a fleet of four carriers and two battleships moving through the central Pacific with an invasion force. I really should have gobbled up as much of Indonesia and South Asia as I could have for the economic points. Good fun.

Sales of The Great Nuclear War of 1975 remain acceptable, and The Great Salvation of 1976 is nearly completed. We're working on, or at least thinking about, novel number three right now. We've also considered novel number four. What if Israel consolidates control over the Middle East, pops off a few more nukes, drives out the West Bank People, and establishes Eretz Israel? In the process they piss off France. Let's say they go and bomb Saddam's nuclear reactor and kill some French scientists in the process. Could we not have the Franco/Israeli war? Think of the possibilities. 

We have a storyline. Nuclear war, followed by aftermath followed by recovery with a future history taking things to 2025. We're doing that. Do we want to maintain a universe where we play around with ideas and possibilities? Maybe. This leads to existential questions which we'll wright about this week.

*Yes, we agree with Ace's assessment of the man, for Ace is always right. Nevertheless, Allah has important insights.