The Russian, the Soviet and the Jew

A recent reviewer of World War 1990: Castro's Folly noted, 'I would have dinged a couple more stars last year for how well NATO is doing against the Warsaw Pact in this series. But given how well the Ukraine is doing vis-à-vis Russia, I can now believe it.' Russian/Soviet tactics suck. Russian/Soviet equipment sucks. That said, Stroock's Books admits that it is stunned at the Soviet's level of tactical incompetence. What would be happening now had Ivan's bold airborne assault on Kiev succeeded?

Don't believe this blog. Believe the Israelis. The Jew may be clever, but he is no superman. See also Desert Storm. Also, Arabs can't fight. Why in 1967, after the Israelis fried the Egyptian's falafel, STAVKA called Nasser to Egypt and read him the riot act. 'No, you don't understand,' Nasser said. 'We've studied Russian tactics. We've lured the Jew into Sinai. Now we wait for winter.' Thanks folks! Don't forget to tip you waitresses. [You've told that joke before-Ed] That's what my girls say too. 

Exit Question: What's the last battle the United States lost? Kasserine Pass? Villiers Fussard? I dunno, something in Korea, probably. Anyway, here's the point. The US hasn't lost a battle in a long time, and also hasn't won a war in a long time. Ivan hasn't won a battle in Ukraine but is in danger of winning the war.

Baaaaah...! Yesterday we spent a lot of time staring at the third nuke novel. The theme in three needs to be a bit different than the theme in 75 and 76 no? We're past the devastation and despair stage and into the aftermath stage. What's an interesting issue for a town to be dealing with? What would work for a one-off vignette not necessarily related to the chapter?

What Will's Watching, The Daily Wire's god-king, Jeremy Boreing, gives a state of the company address. DW's taking in something like $10 million a month. Boreing, Shaprio and the rest have big, big plans:

If it's Wednesday, It's What Will's Watching and Other Observations

Okay...KU reads of The Great Nuclear War of 1975 increase with day two doubling over day one and day three doubling over day two as of this morning. Rankings are still meh and may remain so. It's a crowded market. We've gotten a little feedback from a few of you and so far, so good. Things are looking great, gotta wear shades.*

What Will's Watching, Red Rocket: Mikey is a down on his luck 'actor' who returns home to his estranged wife in Texas City. A handsome, likable fast talker, one is never quite sure if one should root for or against Mikey. Red Rocket is an artsy film about mood and place. Director Sean Baker captures both with expertise. This is a good-looking film about uncomfortable subjects; the poor, porn, grooming. Brittany Rodriguez is a non-professional actor, cast off the street by Baker, and plays brilliantly a tough, bourgeoning pot dealer who is strangely likable. 4/4

Numerous sources report that President Zelinsky is willing to negotiate with Putin. He would allegedly concede Crimea and agree not to join NATO.  Crimea is Russian whether Ukraine and the West like it or not. This observer is on record and has written for the Ruskis that Ukraine should not join NATO. Duh. This could be a ruse. Or like this blog, Zelinsky thinks his time and resources are limited. 

Right now the media portrays the Ukes as plucky anti-fascist rebels poking the bear. Readers of this blog should be smart enough to approach the media narrative with great skepticism and caution. Most reports on Soviet casualties come from the Ukrainians. We know nothing about Ukrainian casualties. And please, no more articles about the end of armored warfare. People have written that tanks are finished since the Yom Kippur war. You have man portable antitank rockets, I have the Trophy Anti-Rocket system.

That being said it's undeniable that the Ukrainians have had tremendous success with small anti-tank rocket teams. This blog doubts these are volunteer militia fighters. Those are the guys that die early in a war because they think they're in Red Dawn, or something. Rather, these are professional soldiers who have been training with NLAWs and TOWs for years. 

Help from the West is...unsteady. On the one hand, the US Senate just gave Ukraine $14.1 billion. On the other hand American support is highly symbolic. Artists are flying paper airplanes to advocate for a no-fly- zone.**  On the gripping hand, look at that PR fiasco with Poland offering to send its MiG-29s to Ramstein and the US saying, 'What? Huh? Uhhhh, no.'

Gas here in New Jersey is well above four bucks. Thanks Joe.

*That's an 80's reference most of you won't get. But if you're in the know, you know. Heh.

**We love how a no-fly-zone is the cause celeb for idiot influencer types. Given the effectiveness of Uke fighters and bombers, a no-fly-zone would hurt them more than the Ruskis, no? How do these hashtag activist types even sit the right way on a toilet seat, and who wipes their asses for them? Fuckheads - Huh, spellcheck accepts 'fuckheads' as one word. 

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

Friday Flag, comrades:

Your Combined Russia/Ukraine War and Will's Lipid Panel Update for 3/1/22

Well fuck me. My bloodwork came back with very unexpected results: 

Triglycerides was 634 now 461.

Cholesterol was 240 now 158.

Glucose was 139 now 118.

This calls for a celebratory 80's training montage:

 

Of course Ivan Drago is in that clip. Moving on to other things Russian...

Zuckerberg is kicking Russia off META. Google is banning Russian media advertisements. FIFA has banned Russia from competition. Celebrities are pouring their Russian vodka down the drain and several governors are urging liquor stores to pull Russian vodka from their shelves. If we can all remove Tchaikovsky* and Prokofiev from our playlists, we'll really sock it to Putin. 

Some fools are calling on the West to establish a no-fly-zone over Ukraine. As if the UN Security Council will pass a resolution and *poof* no more Russian aircraft over Kiev. How do these people think Putin will respond to a no-fly-zone? How do these people intend to enforce it? Idiots.

One unexpected Ukrainian tactic: civil disobedience. Civilians have blocked Russian tanks, harassed Russian soldiers and refused to give them food and fuel. So far, the Russians haven't gunned them down. The old Russian army would have. We'll see how long that lasts. Sooner or later the Russian will embrace his inner Cossack. 

[So pessimistic-Ed]

True. Why are we so pessimistic? The Chechens really smacked around the Ruskis in '95. But the Ruskis won in the end. The Russians defeated Georgia in 2008. See also the Hong Kong protests. Again, we just think Russian numbers will win the day. But protests in Russia, you say? Unprecedented? Not so fast. Protests are actually pretty common. This ain't Stalin's Russia. Until we see some evidence to the contrary, and that's not CNN reporting on anonymous sources, we assume Putin has a firm grasp on Russia. 

We are working diligently on World War 1990: The Weser and have completed reading the Intro (20 pages) and Part-I, The Americans (50 pages). We're quite pleased with the 8th Infantry Division's battle. We could have done some more work on Part-I, but feel like that've been over doing it. Work smarter, not harder. Opportunities will present themselves if we put Part-I down for a week. In this case working smarter and not harder means moving on to Part II: The British. Here too we are pleased with the fight between UK 4 Armoured Division and East German 7 Tank Division. Hello Jerry.

*We were listening to Tchaikovsky at the gym yesterday. Is this collusion?

Will's Good Idea for the Week of 2/27/22

Why haven't the Soviets Russians achieved their goals in Ukraine? This blog believes the Ukrainians have put up much tougher resistance than anticipated. The Ukes are also well equipped and those NLAW anti-tank weapons are deadly. 

Are Russian training and tactics holding them back? We'll reserve judgement because we don't know the Russian plan. Maybe they've achieved everything they wanted in the first 96 hours. Remember, the liberation of Iraq in 2003 stalled because of logistics problems and a sandstorm. But in the end the Marines still arrested Baghdad Bob, 'I'm sorry sir, you'll have to come with us.' Wait for facts. 

This blog believes Russian numbers will win out.

Putin Watch: We've been reading up on Putin and Russia. It turns out Putin is relatively popular in Russia. 

Were we to hit publish right now, The Great Nuclear War of 1975 would be available by dinner tonight.

Yesterday we finished reading Part I of World War 1990: The Weser. Then we started reading it again. We anticipate finishing the second read through of Part I today. When one doesn't collude with the Ruskis, one has more time for writing and editing. We spent a lot of time clarifying, 'Whose advancing on the Farm?' and omitting needless words. Here's an interesting problem. We wrote two American tanks (one M-1, one National Guard M-60), a Soviet tank, and a West German tank. That's sixteen (16!) characters right there.

We are pleased. 

Getting onto Will's Good Idea for the week of 2/27/22... We've discussed World War 1990: Battle of the GIUK Gap before, but it's worth going over again. 

Let's workshop this.

We think the novel will have an opening blockbuster. That might be the Soviet amphib/airborne attack on Iceland. Now that we think about it, maybe the opening blockbuster should be a Soviet amphib/airborne attack on one of the big Norwegian bases. 

We'll write lots of submarine scenes, Norwegian, Soviet, and probably British. We should bring back Tenacious, right? We should bring back Ula, right? Speaking of bringing back, we'll have our Backfire bomber characters from Battle of the Three Seas. They should wreck a NATO convoy. Maybe we should reach waaaay back and write about USS Stirling. Remember her? GIUK Gap offers us the opportunity to explore the P3 Orion and Nimrod anti-sub planes. Maybe we'll do a NATO hunter-killer surface group. Post ideas in comments. 

The Bridgewater/Moscow Nexus

Last night we attended the BLM protest here in Bridgewater in support of Z'kaye Hussain. We'd say 50 + people gathered in front of the municipal building. The town council was supposed to meet but cancelled. Which is dumb.  Bridgewater Patch has a good article. News12 New Jersey and WPIX 11 were there, as were two other print journalists. This protest had a different energy than last weekend's which was generally hopeful. Last night speakers were angry. Not all. A couple of older black gentlemen urged attendees not to blame the other kid involved and pointed out that young men roughhouse and fight. Quite right. There were lots of 'no justice, no peace' chants. One youth pastor talked about not caring for Blue Lives. Several 'white allies' spoke. These were exercises in self-hatred. 

Well, Ukrainian forces have exacted a heavy toll from the Russians*, for all the good it will do them in the long run. As we write this there's fighting in the outskirts of Kiev. The West's proposed sanctions don't even touch the Russian energy sector. This is a cruel joke. The media, being filled with degenerate retards, keep saying Putin is trying to rebuild the Soviet Union. No, you morons. This is a Tsarist thing not a Soviet thing. Anyway, here's a map describing Soviet, sorry, Russian ops.

What Will's Watching, Kremlin Inside with Sophia Shevardnadze: We are enchanted. Also the Kremlin is both beautiful and fascinating. We almost feel bad about having the SAS torch it with flamethrowers in The Final Storm. Also, here's Kara and Nate in Red Square. We'd really like to visit Moscow and not just to further our Russian collusion. 

Will goes retro. Facebook memories presented this to us this morning. From 2014:

Points made while reading riot act to class full of lazy, indifferent students:
-These tests are a pathetic, half-assed mess
-You are wasting my time
-My time is exponentially more valuable than your time
-I am an exceptional professor and this is your fault, not mine
-You will remember me the rest of your lives while I will forget about you all 5 minutes after I file your final grades
-You are wasting your parents money, that was an invitation to get up and leave
-I hope I'm understood.

We miss teaching.

Below, the Friday Flag:

Whither Europe. Wither Europe? I dunno.

*Follow ELINT News. Doing so will take you to tweeters on the ground in Ukraine and Ukrainian/Russian specialists.

Russia: The Stroock Plan

It is with great sadness that we told our KGB handler in the Kremlin that our relationship is over. We loved colluding with Russia. We did love it so. So much so that by our count we've published 100 articles with Inforos/Infobrics. Click here to see them all. In fact, click here to see our very first piece at Inforos:

With the USSR long gone pushing NATO even further east is a pointless provocation. Those advocating for expanding to Russia’s border forget NATO’s mission, stated clearly in the alliance’s name, North Atlantic Treaty Organization; North Atlantic. NATO links western Europe to North America with Great Britain as the physical and cultural bridge between the two. From Nord Kapp, to the North Sea and down to the Greenland, Iceland United Kingdom Gap NATO protects the Atlantic crossings. The Baltics, Ukraine and Georgia have nothing to do with the Atlantic and should have nothing to do with NATO. Today most American troops are gone from Europe and NATO’s once fine, professional militaries have shriveled. Why poke the Bear?

We knew what we were doing, da. We wrote something we believed. We wrote something that we thought we could get in print with those recidivist commies. Ninety-nine articles later we stand by what we wrote in 2019. Why poke the bear? Look closely at the first vowel in NATO. A is for Atlantic. To be clear, America has no national interest in Ukraine. None whatsoever. We won't die for Donbass.

What should the West have done? The West should have realized that Russia has interests too. Russia has red lines. Russia has pride. The West should have told Putin, 'Fine. You promise not to invade Ukraine, we'll promise not to expand NATO further.' Da? Da.

And the West should have been tougher and clearer. That is, the West should have said to Putin, 'Here are every one of the sanctions we will impose if you invade Ukraine. Here's every one of the weapons we'll send to Ukraine if you do invade. Here's a rundown of the massive NATO fleet exercise we'll hold in the Barents Sea just to piss you off.'* 

What should the West do now? Sanction the Russians all you want. Cutoff Moscow's ability to finance its debt. Kick the Ruskis out of SWIFT. Throw them out of the Olympics and any other international sports org you can think of. Move to expel them from the UN**. Invite Sweden and Finland to join NATO. But remember one thing. Russians don't think like us in the West. As an Indian neighbor who lived in Moscow for several years once told us, 'Russians look like Europeans but think like Asians.' They don't care. 

*NATO used to do that in the 80's.

**Putin chairs the Security Council right now, which is a sick joke.

The Red Army Rolls

Everyone reading this knows by now that Russia has invaded Ukraine. Putin's war message was extremely bellicose, and Russia's efforts aren't limited to the Donbass region. This blog gets the impression that Putin seeks regime change. That strikes us as overreach. We're not qualified to analyze the war. Those interested can follow events at Elint News. 

Reports indicate the Soviets, sorry, Ruskis, have deployed amphibious and airborne forces. Putin is obviously showcasing  Russian military capabilities and this blog is very interested to see how the Russians perform during this war. One observation, Russian missiles seem to be hitting stuff.

Joe Biden has lost two countries inside of a year. Remember  Joe's tough guy act? Remember how Joe bragged that Putin didn't want him to be president? Yeah, no. War rages across Ukraine. Energy prices will skyrocket. The Dow will tumble. We fear Joe and the rest of the incompetent Obama retreads in the regime will fuck things up even more. This blog can't help but notice that Putin didn't pull this crap when Trump was in office. 

Once again European 'soft-power' failed to keep the peace. Forget global power projection, The Europeans can't stop war in Europe. The Europeans couldn't stop the Jugolsav War. The Europeans couldn't stop the Kosovo War. The Europeans couldn't stop Russia from invading Georgia and they couldn't stop Russia from taking Crimea. Brussels couldn't prevent Russia from invading Ukraine. No more lectures, Okay European diplomats? There's not one Metternich or Castlereagh among you.  

And please, no comparisons to President Carter and/or Prime Minister Chamberlain. After the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, Jimmy Carter cancelled SALT II, withdrew from the Olympics and increased defense spending. Carter changed. Is anyone in the Biden Regime capable of change? Neville Chamberlain was a patriot who did everything he could do to maintain the peace in the aftermath of the most destructive war in European history. The Prime Minister's actions were wrong, but entirely understandable. 

Exit question: are we better or worse off with Joe non-compos-mentis?