Category Archives: Russia

Odds & Ends

grampslcf September 30, 2023 Comments Off

Senator Diane Feinstein has died. Feinstein served 30 years in the US Senate. Feinstein was 90 at the time of her death and had been in poor health for some time. Feinstein had missed several months this year when she was sidelined with a case of shingles.

Governor Newsom will appoint a replacement to fill out her term. The Democrats are calling for quick action since many “crucial” votes are coming up.

Yevgeny Prigozhin Killed?

grampslcf August 24, 2023 Comments Off

Multiple media reports are saying that Prigozhin was killed in a plane crash in Russia. For those who may be unfamiliar with the name, Progozhin was the leader (and owner?) of the Wagner Group. This is a significant military group that takes on military actions for Russia.

Idle Thoughts

grampslcf August 7, 2023 Comments Off

Starting the fiscal year 2026, Minnesota will give $15 million to those who have been harmed by marijuana prohibition. Yes, you read that right. If you suffered because marijuana was a prohibited substance, the State of Minnesota will see that millions of dollars are available to help you over that trauma.

Sounds like a good program for Hunter Biden.

Trump Op-Ed

grampslcf August 2, 2023 Comments Off

PDJT has been battered again and again since June 2015 when he came down the escalator to announce his candidacy. Since PDJT embarked on this journey, it has been a moral crusade, one that has resonated with the people of this country and with others around the world. Regardless of what they have thrown at him, the baseless impeachments, the current made-up legal challenges, the people are seeing through the BS and the smokescreens that have been thrown up.

On Monday, PDJT released an op-ed in Newsweek that destroys the woke establishment in Washington. It distills the issues, events and consequences of all that has transpired. As President Trump notes toward the end of his discussion, “there must be a reckoning.”

Civil War?

grampslcf July 19, 2023 Comments Off

Some interesting items coming out of a recent Substack post by Seymour Hersh. For those not familiar with Hersh, his story is one of fierce independence. Hersh has been at the forefront of investigative journalism for decades. The My Lai massacre expose earned Hersh a Pulitzer. This was at a time when getting a Pulitzer really meant something.

Hersh’s recent piece examines the state of the Democratic Party as the 2024 election cycle approaches.

Russia/Ukraine Off Ramp

grampslcf July 15, 2023 Comments Off

We are now beginning to hear about an exit strategy from the morass that the West finds itself in. Ukraine is desperate to find any possible breakthrough to sell to their NATO masters at this point. However, the much-vaunted counter offensive (first in the Spring, then in June) has failed to materialize. No breakthroughs have been achieved despite massive losses of manpower and equipment

Chernobyl 2.0

grampslcf July 14, 2023 Comments Off

One of the fear porn stories coming out of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in June was that the Russians were planning to blow up the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP). Zelensky claimed that explosives were in place and that the Russians were ready to do this.

Russian Civil War?

grampslcf June 28, 2023 Comments Off

Big Media has been foaming at the mouth over what they are calling an armed insurrection in Russia. Wagner group mercenaries were supposedly marching on Moscow with Yevgeny Prigozhin stating the war was immoral. Putin had no reason to start the war. Ukraine was not a threat, etc.

Big Media was saying that Putin was humiliated and that he likely would have trouble moving forward. Putin’s authority was irreparably damaged according to former US ambassador to Ukraine John Herbst. According to Prigozhin, Russian troops are demoralized and poorly led.

Then like flipping a light switch, the “insurrection” was over. Despite an arrest warrant being issued and following a furious address by Putin broadcast across Russia, Prigozhin was allowed to go into exile in Belarus and the warrant was cancelled. The Wagner Group is being assimilated into the ranks of the regular Russian Army something which Prigozhin had publicly resisted.

So what really happened?

He’s Back

grampslcf June 7, 2023 Comments Off

Tucker Carlson, who is currently embroiled in a contract dispute with his former network, has used his personal Twitter account to return to visibility. I for one am grateful to have someone speaking loudly in defense of America as our founders envisioned it. The video has gotten 3.5 million views in the first hour. How’s Fox’s prime time lineup doing?

The video now has 27 million views. The control freaks in Washington have to be going bananas.

F-16’s and Ukraine

grampslcf May 27, 2023 Comments Off

One of the news items floating around recently has been the idea that Ukraine will be receiving F-16’s to use against Russia. Anyone who seriously understands the operational characteristics of an F-16 knows that this is a really stupid idea.