Remembering Byron in Greece, Travis at the Alamo, Teddy Roosevelt in Cuba, and Ambrose Bierce in Mexico: Reflections on history written in an ironic tone.
Were 1.6 million Ukrainian Jews murdered by Nazis in Ukraine during WWII? That would be a horrific war crime.
On another note, Russia has about 15 military bases outside its sovereign borders, correct?
The US has over 800 military bases outside its sovereign borders staffed by over 500,000 civilian and military personnel. No problem there.
And msm tells us that Russia is trying to take over the planet. 🤭
Doesn’t seem quite that simple. 🟢
Last time msm deceived us about Crimea so I’m not as ready to accept msm explanations this time without verifying from other sources… ✅
Has Ukraine really shelled the Donbass for eight years since the 2014 coup, killing about 14,000 people including many children? 🌍
May the Creator of Heaven and earth protect Ukrainian and Russian civilians from further harm… 😪
So whenever msm resurrects the “Russia invaded and annexed Crimea” narrative I resurrect my response...
History lesson: In 1783 Crimea became Russian. From 1805 to the present the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been based at Sevastopol, Crimea.
In 1954, a year after the horrific reign of Stalin ended with his death, the new Russian President Khrushchev decided to give Crimea to Ukraine, apparently surprising his advisors. He did keep the base at Sevastopol, however.
In 2014, after a Western-backed soft coup in Ukraine, the Russian population of Crimea called a referendum. The vote was 97% to rejoin Russia. Unlike Kosovo, not one shot was fired and no one died. And unlike Kosovo, which many Western leaders recognized immediately and fell over each other changing their maps to reflect the new reality, maps were not changed.
Someone responded to my comment by telling me that the UN had voted overwhelmingly not to recognize the Crimea referendum.
My response? “The British voted overwhelmingly not to recognize the American Declaration of Independence.”
That’s what I discovered about Crimea after the 2014 Western-backed soft coup.
I have friends in both countries, btw. May God protect them in this storm.
I pray that God will bless both Ukraine and the Russian Federation with peace and prosperity and an end to hostilities. ✅
Khrushchev was Ukrainian, which is why he added Crimea to his former country. Much of the rest of Ukraine was originally Russian, Romanian, or Polish. Stalin had lopped them off from their original countries and added them to Ukraine. As you point out, we have no business deciding where the borders are between the two countries. Like you, I pray for the ending of this horrible, unnecessary mass murder by our betters in D.C. I also pray for Putin's long life and good health, as Xi and the CCP would have never tolerated this and we'd been in a very serious kinetic war in 2014 if we'd tried to do the same thing to China, who had actually broken their treaty with the Brits and annexed Hong Kong illegally.
Whether or not America has an interest in who governs the four oblasts, let's not forget one fact: in past Ukrainian national elections, the population in these regions consistently and overwhelmingly (90+%) voted for pro-Russian presidential candidates. These are Russian-speaking, ethnic Russians who want to rejoin Mother Russia, especially in view of the post-2014 hostile treatment by the Ukrainian government. Before getting all emotionally riled up, we should think about that.
On Tucker the other day Col MacGregor when queried spoke of the nearly innumerable times that the borders of Ukraine have been redrawn. Reflecting the amount of bickering, empire coalescence and dissolution, religious affiliation
For millennial, not just centuries or recent years, the Europeans and Asians have fought amongst themselves. We are fools to believe and act like there is something we could possibly do to end millennial old disputes. It’s past time to mind our own business here at home, to shutter all our military bases in foreign lands and to bring all our military personal and equipment home, and that should include all the covert instigators of trouble, also known as the CIA.
When you mentioned TR, I thought you might be using irony, but was unsure. Quentin Roosevelt, his youngest son, was killed during World War I on July 14, 1918. I don't believe he ever got over it. He also lost Theodore Roosevelt III (AKA Theodore Jr.,) the eldest son of TR, 36 days after he landed in D - Day as 1 of 2 generals on Omaha Beach. He died in his sleep from a MI.
You are correct in observing, "Obviously, Americans have no real interest in who governs Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts."
However, there was one anomaly that should spark minor interest. After the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Soros sponsored the Rose Revolution in Georgia. The President of Georgia after the Rose Revolution later governed an oblast in Ukraine. From Wiki:
Mikheil Saakashvili[nb 1][nb 2] (/ˌsɑːkəʃˈviːli/; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist.[6][7] He was the third president of Georgia for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013. He is the founder and former chairman of Georgia's United National Movement party. From May 2015 until November 2016, Saakashvili was the governor of Ukraine's Odesa Oblast.[1][8] After resigning, he was temporarily exiled, but returned in 2019 under a new President. Saakashvili returned to Georgia in 2021, and has been imprisoned there since then.
distrust and pure hate that his filtered about this area for centuries. Certainly not something that can be sorted out by a country 4000 mikes away across an ocean. Particularly, when its method of reconciliation aid was in the form of weapons and munitions for the most virulent group. We will find out that the two sides will work this out. Not us, because we don’t have to live with the results.
The use and definitions of written irony and satire have undergone interpretations and changes through the years, particularly from the sixteenth century onward. This was fun.
Fwiw, I understood you were being ironic. I was shocked (shocked, I tell you!) at how many of your readers failed to notice your tone. You are correct that we aren't living in an age of subtlety. Carry on, John! Your doing great.
Every true American needs to read " The Tavistock Institute Of Human Relations" by Dr. John Coleman. The book may be hard to find or over priced because the powers that be don't want people to have this knowledge. See how our country and culture is truly governed and manipulated since 1913 to this very day. Find the book and pass it on.
Regardless of the merits, a look at the map above makes it clear that possession of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts was and is essential for Russia to hold onto Crimea. That strategic necessity was reinforced by Ukrainian attacks on the bridge across the strait of the Sea of Azov linking Crimea with the Russian mainland to the east. Once Crimea was returned to Russia, it was inevitable that possession of those four adjacent oblasts would be sought by Russia either peacefully through negotiation, or by war. Without them, possession of Crimea, and the vitally important port of Sevastopol, would be hazardous at best; especially if NATO forces were allowed to occupy those oblasts.
I did wonder why you were suggesting that Romantically being Heroic and Dying for a Foreign Power was a good idea!
Still, the Greeks definitely appreciate Byron's efforts - just see how many streets are named after him and go see the memorial at Messalonghi. When my daughter moved to Greece I told her to tell everyone she was descended from him (her now husband who's Greek thinks Byron was a hero)
He is one of my greatest heroes! His correspondence about his adventures in Greece is laugh out loud funny. He never lost his sense of humor or his fine sense of irony.
So I don’t think anyone from anywhere, including Ukraine, should put their life, fame, or fortune on the line for any of these areas. However, your initial post brought up a very important point that is applicable if not to Ukraine certainly to us, meaning the US. As the biblical sayings go, “there is a spirit in man”. & “not by might or power but by My spirit alone said the Lord”. That spirit cannot be experienced with the 5 senses & it can’t be quantified and yet it is the source of everything worth living for. More was accomplished in the minutes Trump struggled out of SS grasp to say ‘Fight! Fight! Fight then anything else he has ever done. As ego driven as Trump maybe, he knew that wasn’t a man speaking, it was the spirit that infuse the man. From Zuckerberg to guy/gal on the street we all bathed in it. Humanity’s problem is that is we have reduced spirit down to a mere calculation. All the rhetoric aside, it is hard to find nobility amid a band of two bit Ukrainian grifters. You took inspiration from Travis, for me it was the Gettysburg’s Address not for what was scarified but why — liberty & dedication that all men were created equal. Lincoln’s question still remains unanswered - can we endure?
I will need an 8-ball & a Bugatti Veryon, Mrs Zelenski's will do. Need gas, a Desert Storm Colt .45 & REALLY fkn loud speakers... yep, 'nother mission from God 👏
What I wrote when the war began in 2022…
Were 1.6 million Ukrainian Jews murdered by Nazis in Ukraine during WWII? That would be a horrific war crime.
On another note, Russia has about 15 military bases outside its sovereign borders, correct?
The US has over 800 military bases outside its sovereign borders staffed by over 500,000 civilian and military personnel. No problem there.
And msm tells us that Russia is trying to take over the planet. 🤭
Doesn’t seem quite that simple. 🟢
Last time msm deceived us about Crimea so I’m not as ready to accept msm explanations this time without verifying from other sources… ✅
Has Ukraine really shelled the Donbass for eight years since the 2014 coup, killing about 14,000 people including many children? 🌍
May the Creator of Heaven and earth protect Ukrainian and Russian civilians from further harm… 😪
So whenever msm resurrects the “Russia invaded and annexed Crimea” narrative I resurrect my response...
History lesson: In 1783 Crimea became Russian. From 1805 to the present the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been based at Sevastopol, Crimea.
In 1954, a year after the horrific reign of Stalin ended with his death, the new Russian President Khrushchev decided to give Crimea to Ukraine, apparently surprising his advisors. He did keep the base at Sevastopol, however.
In 2014, after a Western-backed soft coup in Ukraine, the Russian population of Crimea called a referendum. The vote was 97% to rejoin Russia. Unlike Kosovo, not one shot was fired and no one died. And unlike Kosovo, which many Western leaders recognized immediately and fell over each other changing their maps to reflect the new reality, maps were not changed.
Someone responded to my comment by telling me that the UN had voted overwhelmingly not to recognize the Crimea referendum.
My response? “The British voted overwhelmingly not to recognize the American Declaration of Independence.”
That’s what I discovered about Crimea after the 2014 Western-backed soft coup.
I have friends in both countries, btw. May God protect them in this storm.
I pray that God will bless both Ukraine and the Russian Federation with peace and prosperity and an end to hostilities. ✅
Khrushchev was Ukrainian, which is why he added Crimea to his former country. Much of the rest of Ukraine was originally Russian, Romanian, or Polish. Stalin had lopped them off from their original countries and added them to Ukraine. As you point out, we have no business deciding where the borders are between the two countries. Like you, I pray for the ending of this horrible, unnecessary mass murder by our betters in D.C. I also pray for Putin's long life and good health, as Xi and the CCP would have never tolerated this and we'd been in a very serious kinetic war in 2014 if we'd tried to do the same thing to China, who had actually broken their treaty with the Brits and annexed Hong Kong illegally.
Danny Huckabee
msm is PROPAGANDA.
Whether or not America has an interest in who governs the four oblasts, let's not forget one fact: in past Ukrainian national elections, the population in these regions consistently and overwhelmingly (90+%) voted for pro-Russian presidential candidates. These are Russian-speaking, ethnic Russians who want to rejoin Mother Russia, especially in view of the post-2014 hostile treatment by the Ukrainian government. Before getting all emotionally riled up, we should think about that.
On Tucker the other day Col MacGregor when queried spoke of the nearly innumerable times that the borders of Ukraine have been redrawn. Reflecting the amount of bickering, empire coalescence and dissolution, religious affiliation
For millennial, not just centuries or recent years, the Europeans and Asians have fought amongst themselves. We are fools to believe and act like there is something we could possibly do to end millennial old disputes. It’s past time to mind our own business here at home, to shutter all our military bases in foreign lands and to bring all our military personal and equipment home, and that should include all the covert instigators of trouble, also known as the CIA.
When you mentioned TR, I thought you might be using irony, but was unsure. Quentin Roosevelt, his youngest son, was killed during World War I on July 14, 1918. I don't believe he ever got over it. He also lost Theodore Roosevelt III (AKA Theodore Jr.,) the eldest son of TR, 36 days after he landed in D - Day as 1 of 2 generals on Omaha Beach. He died in his sleep from a MI.
That was a needed clarification, for sure John, as that post read almost like a call for young men to go fight!
You are correct in observing, "Obviously, Americans have no real interest in who governs Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts."
However, there was one anomaly that should spark minor interest. After the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, Soros sponsored the Rose Revolution in Georgia. The President of Georgia after the Rose Revolution later governed an oblast in Ukraine. From Wiki:
Mikheil Saakashvili[nb 1][nb 2] (/ˌsɑːkəʃˈviːli/; born 21 December 1967) is a Georgian and Ukrainian politician and jurist.[6][7] He was the third president of Georgia for two consecutive terms from 25 January 2004 to 17 November 2013. He is the founder and former chairman of Georgia's United National Movement party. From May 2015 until November 2016, Saakashvili was the governor of Ukraine's Odesa Oblast.[1][8] After resigning, he was temporarily exiled, but returned in 2019 under a new President. Saakashvili returned to Georgia in 2021, and has been imprisoned there since then.
distrust and pure hate that his filtered about this area for centuries. Certainly not something that can be sorted out by a country 4000 mikes away across an ocean. Particularly, when its method of reconciliation aid was in the form of weapons and munitions for the most virulent group. We will find out that the two sides will work this out. Not us, because we don’t have to live with the results.
Wonder what Boris and Natasha think about all this?
Are they still on the lam from the KGB up in Frostbite Falls Minnesota?
The use and definitions of written irony and satire have undergone interpretations and changes through the years, particularly from the sixteenth century onward. This was fun.
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Jennifer Jones
Fwiw, I understood you were being ironic. I was shocked (shocked, I tell you!) at how many of your readers failed to notice your tone. You are correct that we aren't living in an age of subtlety. Carry on, John! Your doing great.
Every true American needs to read " The Tavistock Institute Of Human Relations" by Dr. John Coleman. The book may be hard to find or over priced because the powers that be don't want people to have this knowledge. See how our country and culture is truly governed and manipulated since 1913 to this very day. Find the book and pass it on.
Regardless of the merits, a look at the map above makes it clear that possession of the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia oblasts was and is essential for Russia to hold onto Crimea. That strategic necessity was reinforced by Ukrainian attacks on the bridge across the strait of the Sea of Azov linking Crimea with the Russian mainland to the east. Once Crimea was returned to Russia, it was inevitable that possession of those four adjacent oblasts would be sought by Russia either peacefully through negotiation, or by war. Without them, possession of Crimea, and the vitally important port of Sevastopol, would be hazardous at best; especially if NATO forces were allowed to occupy those oblasts.
Most Americans, unfortunately, don't even know where Ukraine is. They would hardly understand any of it's history.
Hahahahaha!!!!!
I did wonder why you were suggesting that Romantically being Heroic and Dying for a Foreign Power was a good idea!
Still, the Greeks definitely appreciate Byron's efforts - just see how many streets are named after him and go see the memorial at Messalonghi. When my daughter moved to Greece I told her to tell everyone she was descended from him (her now husband who's Greek thinks Byron was a hero)
He is one of my greatest heroes! His correspondence about his adventures in Greece is laugh out loud funny. He never lost his sense of humor or his fine sense of irony.
One of my heroes too - great poetry as well as a life well lived!!!
So I don’t think anyone from anywhere, including Ukraine, should put their life, fame, or fortune on the line for any of these areas. However, your initial post brought up a very important point that is applicable if not to Ukraine certainly to us, meaning the US. As the biblical sayings go, “there is a spirit in man”. & “not by might or power but by My spirit alone said the Lord”. That spirit cannot be experienced with the 5 senses & it can’t be quantified and yet it is the source of everything worth living for. More was accomplished in the minutes Trump struggled out of SS grasp to say ‘Fight! Fight! Fight then anything else he has ever done. As ego driven as Trump maybe, he knew that wasn’t a man speaking, it was the spirit that infuse the man. From Zuckerberg to guy/gal on the street we all bathed in it. Humanity’s problem is that is we have reduced spirit down to a mere calculation. All the rhetoric aside, it is hard to find nobility amid a band of two bit Ukrainian grifters. You took inspiration from Travis, for me it was the Gettysburg’s Address not for what was scarified but why — liberty & dedication that all men were created equal. Lincoln’s question still remains unanswered - can we endure?
I will need an 8-ball & a Bugatti Veryon, Mrs Zelenski's will do. Need gas, a Desert Storm Colt .45 & REALLY fkn loud speakers... yep, 'nother mission from God 👏