Before I get to the important stuff, some links I ran across on the Ukraine/Russia war

A number of things here, including what bullshit the Biden sanctions on Russia are.

One of the links above notes that the Biden people gave intelligence on Ukraine to the PRC, and the PRC gave it to Russia.  Which brings up here the idea that they wanted the PRC to do so to push the situation hotter.  Why?  At least in part, it's pushing energy costs up, and some of these idiots will say- some actually believe- that they can say "See!  We need windmills and solar panels everywhere so we don't need oil and gas!"

It does sound like the kind of crap they'd push, doesn't it?

Throw in the very sympathetic coverage by most of our media.  I'm old enough to remember, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, all the stories from the same sources about the poor Kuwaiti people and how we must do something to help.  The same sources that, some time later, were telling us what crap a lot of the stuff out of Kuwait was.  So to say I don't trust them is an understatement, especially with how they've gone all-out to protect President Gropey since he was hiding in the basement during the campaign.

So it's a mess, and with some of the crap Gropey had said and done, and his handlers, I was already wondering if they wanted Putin to do something, and why?  Maybe we'll find out more.