Hello? Is this thing on? Seems everybody has a blog these days, and some people have absolutely no reason to have one, apart from their colossal ego and echoingly empty head. Seriously, these are the people for whom reality television was created.
But I digress. A bit of background for you history buffs: we recently had some unpleasantness in Ukraine, due to a commercial airliner being shot from the sky by a surface-to-air missile launched by "separatists." Nearly three hundred lives were snuffed out by a device built in, supplied by, and probably manned by a crew from, Russia. That's not good.
I could wax poetic about "Man's inhumanity to Man" or some such, but really, what's the point? Yes, the Russians shot down a civilian airliner, just like they did in 1986, and no, nothing at all of any consequence will be done about it. The Russians will eventually re-absorb Ukraine, which will then become another Republic of the newly reformed USSR. If I were in Georgia, or any of the -stan countries, I'd be looking at what kind of anti-tank weapons I could round up quickly.
We've got another madman on the loose, bent on world domination, but this one has nuclear weapons and advanced systems at his command. If Hitler almost took over Europe in spite of being mad as a hatter, imagine what will happen when Mad Vlad "The Impaler" Putin starts trouble. I'm not looking forward to this. You probably shouldn't be, either.
But I digress. A bit of background for you history buffs: we recently had some unpleasantness in Ukraine, due to a commercial airliner being shot from the sky by a surface-to-air missile launched by "separatists." Nearly three hundred lives were snuffed out by a device built in, supplied by, and probably manned by a crew from, Russia. That's not good.
I could wax poetic about "Man's inhumanity to Man" or some such, but really, what's the point? Yes, the Russians shot down a civilian airliner, just like they did in 1986, and no, nothing at all of any consequence will be done about it. The Russians will eventually re-absorb Ukraine, which will then become another Republic of the newly reformed USSR. If I were in Georgia, or any of the -stan countries, I'd be looking at what kind of anti-tank weapons I could round up quickly.
We've got another madman on the loose, bent on world domination, but this one has nuclear weapons and advanced systems at his command. If Hitler almost took over Europe in spite of being mad as a hatter, imagine what will happen when Mad Vlad "The Impaler" Putin starts trouble. I'm not looking forward to this. You probably shouldn't be, either.