We have a small dog. He is a chihuahua mix and has an interesting backstory. He is a rescue who took us to his previous handler, often when he was first adopted. I mean the handler part. Dexter is a retired Coast Guard dog who was medically retired. He has…

I am hardly the first to say this. Russia is a mafia state. So this will come as no surprise. One of the things done by Wagner is to clear the prisons and get some of these people killed. Now, what is curious is that heads of criminal families are…

I usually do not pay too close attention to the day-to-day front-line developments. Others do it far better than I do, and mostly I care about the real big picture. But today, the theme is Soledar, which the Russians claim to control fully and that Ukraine still is fighting for. …

While there is still fighting to be done, on the horizon, we can see not just a Ukrainian victory but a peace that may endure. Russia always comes from a maximalist position. In this case, we keep the lands we have captured. This is easy to do when you are…

The Russian information space is filled with material trying to lay blame for the Ukrainian strike on that garrison. Losses are likely in the hundreds, which is interesting because they have tried a lot of tricks to calm the information space. This is one of those tricks, blame the command: …

In most countries, humor, satire, and political jokes are safe subjects. Lampooning leaders is normal. Satire might play a role in the USSR and now in Russian Space. One of my political science professors in college told me that humor and satire took on another important role while he was…

The attack on Makiivka resonated across the Russian information space. Many of the turbo nationalists were angry. I am sure so were the relatives of the mobilized. Russia fights wars both on the battlefield and in the information space. So here is a note r7n by a Ukrainian source about…

It has been 100 years since a Speaker of the House was not elected to the post on the first vote. We are so used to how procedural these are that some in the media seem surprised that Republicans are in disarray. Realize the last time a Congress had this…

Update: This is an evolving story. These are the views of the German government: The war can be ended at any moment — Russia must completely withdraw its troops from Ukraine, — said the representative of the German government, Steffen Seibert Berlin responded to the Kremlin’s initiative by announcing a…