The Friday Fuck All (illustrated)

A week since Mrs Stroock left for Indiana. We're tired, bored and angry. 

Last night we made London Broil, grilled to perfection with a salad, spicy potatoes and sourdough bread. So far no gout.

An Arab friend posted a 'Hands off my Hijab' meme which we read, or shall we say, misread, before being fully awake. Think about it. 

[You knobhead-Ed].

Seriously. 

So Inforos made the news again. Yet another article claimed that the site's founder Denis Tyurin is a GRU agent. We asked our handler in Moscow, who knows the man. He says Tyurin denies it. Here's a rather impressive chart:

If you google Denis Tyurin you get a Russian hockey player. Maybe the NHL is behind all this? I like hockey.

You think that the journos reporting on Inforos would have some basic curiosity and, I dunno, look up the people writing for Inforos. Who, what, where, when, why. Try it some time. But that's not really what they do.

So this happened last night:

Super secret GRU misinformation websites run out of Siberian missile silos probably don't get hacked. 

Mad whatevs, yo. Payment continues nonetheless:

Every spring we get bored and order new flags. Those of you who don't know us on FB haven't seen them yet.

Below, Rohan will answer the call:

Updates for Saturday (Moscow Edition)

 Ahahahhahahaha...check this out...Aaaaaahahahahaha. 

Saw that right after I wrote this. To paraphrase the late Oriana Fallaci, fuck you, I write what I want. Hunter Biden got something like a million dollar advance for a book that sold 11,000 copies. Nothing to see here. To reiterate, fuck you, I write what I want. I'm writing a piece for Inforos right now. Come and get me Feds.

Let's just quote the relevant bit: 'The GRU operates InfoRos. InfoRos calls itself a news agency but is primarily run by the GRU’s 72nd Main Intelligence Information Center (GRITs). GRITs is a unit within Russia’s Information Operations Troops, which is identified as Russia’s military force for conducting cyber espionage, influence, and offensive cyber operations. InfoRos operates under two organizations, “InfoRos, OOO” and “IA InfoRos.” InfoRos used a network of websites, including nominally independent websites, to spread false conspiracy narratives and disinformation promoted by GRU officials. Denis Tyurin (Tyurin) held a leadership role in InfoRos and had previously served in the GRU.'

Is it true? I've no idea. And I don't care. I've been spreading a hell of a lot of Soviet, er Russian disinformation, that's for sure. Why who can forget the damage done by my article on the British elections? And my latest piece on the Israeli elections is a masterpiece of disinformation sure to wreck havoc in New Jersey's Gubernatorial race this year. 'Where's Bibi?' confused New Jersey voters will be heard to say. 

I write about American politics among other things. Yes, I've written that NATO is useless and we should leave Afghanistan. Only a fool thinks otherwise, or a federal intel analyst. 

Whatever. On to things.

There has been only one thing this week, World War 1990: The Final Storm, and quite a thing it is.

We're at 37,000 words excluding the Georgia stuff. 

We would not say we had a great week, or even a good week. But we had a week and we spent it ordering and righting two chapters in World War 1990: The Final Storm. It was a necessary week. No one said writing is fun or easy. We'll spend next week doing the same with some of the Soviet stuff, command bunkers, Oka satellites, Perimitr, Signal-A, etc etc.

We don't know what we're doing in May.