(((Kremlin, go jump in your own mass grave))) 🇺🇸

My geopolitical predictions track record kinda sucks (I earnestly feared a [Trump-enabled] KJU nuke strike against SK), but here's another: IF Ukraine manages to largely frustrate Putin's land-grab war, and IF the West maintains crippling measures, RF will break up in a few yrs.

@noclador Thomas, you are sorely missed on bluesky, where you haven't posted for over a month. Please give it another shot; I think you'll be pleased by the continuing growth of that site's base and by the robustness of its UA and pro-UA community.

Yearly European fighter jet production: 🇫🇷Rafale: ~20 (scaling up to 30+) 🇪🇺Eurofighter: ~20 (capacity for 60) non-European fighter jets: 🇸🇪Gripen-E: ~20 (uses an 🇺🇸 GE F414-GE-39E engine) 🇮🇹F-35A/B: ~15 (most parts are US-made) Europe MUST SCALE UP Eurofighter production!!

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And the LA Fire Department sent surplus equipment to Ukraine....

From the Wiki page, "List of Latin phrases (full)". It's a banger, even if you're not an American dreaming of emigrating to Europe, anywhere in Europe...

"An nescis, mi fili, quantilla prudentia mundus regatur?" [Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?] -- Axel Oxenstierna in a letter to reassure his insecure son, a delegate to the negotiations that would lead to the Peace of Westphalia.

... overfishing every resource, until our country has been reduced to a toxic wasteland, carved up by the billionaire political puppet-master class, picked clean by vulture capitalists and private equity firms, until there's nothing left but the hair and bones... of you and me.

...siccing cops and mil on peaceable if PO'd marching citizens, suppressing every labor union except for the "Thin Blue Line"'s own denizens, rolling back every business reg that saved a life or spared a tree, and exploiting, mining, drilling, fracking, sawing, grazing, and...

A year-plus ago, the social-mediasphere, our wired-not-tired version of the chattering classes, was amusing itself with a novel question: "How often do you think about the Roman Empire?" I suggest a follow-up parlor game, but re. the Seleucid Empire... now newly relevant.

Don't get me started on "WWII began in Sept. 1939", 'cuz... [deep breath] ... Spanish-Civil-War-&-Franco-Japan-invading-China-&-estab.'g-in-'32-"Manchukuo"-Germany's-demanding-a-Danzig-Corridor-&-the-Sudetenland-&-their-"false-flag"-stunt-in-Poland-&-the-Anschluss-furthermore...

Done the math yet? They lasted 248 years. The same span as, um, 1776-2024. (Yeah, yeah, yeah, the historian in me can quibble the hell out of that, and I wasn't even a 17th C - Federalist Era specialist, but history is full of such simplified stats...