Ah, Monday. Usually the best and most productive day of the week. We've lots of ideas and energy, juju, juzj.
Will there be anything else, love?: 'Kyiv has formulated a list of demands it wants fulfilled by Foreign Minister Eli Cohen ahead of an expected visit to Ukraine, among them a public denunciation of the Russian invasion and hundreds of millions of dollars in loans. The requests, which also include an expression of support for the country’s territorial integrity, medical treatment in Israel and the development of anti-missile technology,...'
As explained many times on this blog before, for a variety of complex economic and personal reasons (his German teacher and wrestling coach were Jews and he lived down the hall from a Jewish family), Vladimir Putin is a friend to the Jew. There's an old saying about history, 'But was he good for Jews?' Napoleon was. Jews have never had better relations with Moscow than they have now, and that's not worth sacrificing for The Current Thing.* [Come on, did your KGB handler in Moscow tell you to write that?-Ed]
Speaking of collusion, a long piece at Zero Hedge about how the Ruski's have survived the West's economic attacks. Russia has drawn closer to China, and fascinatingly, India. This won't surprise students of history, who will recall India and the USSR were on friendly terms during the Cold War. Last summer, when the gents here in Chindia got together for drinks and cigars, our Indian friends expressed outrage that their homeland was expected to go along with the West.
And speaking of the Jews, or der Juden for you Ilhan Omar fans out there, life is imitating Will. Israel Radar reports: 'The Israeli Navy is modifying its operational doctrine to counter a growing Iranian threat at sea. The Navy recently adjusted its deployment in the Red Sea and Mediterranean as Tehran and its allies build stronger naval capabilities. Israel significantly bolstered the presence of warships and submarines in the Red Sea, N12 reports. The IDF recently trained in the Persian Gulf to prepare for growing threats in the region, the report says.' I have the sight. Buy Israel Strikes: War of the Red Sea before it moves from the fiction to the history section.
What Will's Watching: The Grammys! Middle Daughter had to watch, with Harry Styles appearing. She was not disappointed. The man has an easy going air about him, and he's hard not to enjoy. When he wasn't delivering jokes that miss, host Trevor Noah was gracious and genuinely pleasant. We liked the in memoriam set a lot; which featured a woman performing Loretta' Lyn's Coal Miner's Daughter. Most of the rest of the Grammys was a freak show of the talentless, we're looking at you Sam Smith. Yes there was politics. As for Madonna, what can one say? You've come a long way, baby. We are old and out of touch and that's how we like it.
Speaking of freakshows...we write this at our local Starbucks. We've worked here before, though not in some time. We began Riders of the Centauri Range here waaaaaay back in 2006. We needed a change of pace, and the blonde roast is...okay. We also used to hang out here with the real Ed back in 2014/2015, and nearly got thrown out for being too boisterous. In 2023 the baristas do not disappoint. They're exactly what reader(s) are picturing. We've spotted one pro-nouns pin and the obligatory pink/purple haired weirdo. Everyone's friendly though. We'll try things out here for a week.
*Of course, Zelensky is a Jew. So Putin's not very good for him.
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