Cold War
Tinananmen Square
31 years ago in June, Chinese students began a public protest to get the Communist Chinese government to lighten up. Hua Guofeng had just died and was succeeded by Deng Xiaoping, but no loosening of party rulership was forthcoming. There had been protest prior to this in 1976, which were not publicly spoken about, but […]
OPERATION POWER PACK
Lt. Gen. Bruce Palmer Jeff LPH-3 reminds us today is the 55th anniversary of Operation Power Pack, the second United States occupation of the Dominican Republic. It began when the U.S. Marine Corps entered Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on April 28, 1965, in the Dominican Civil War. U.S. Military Intervention in the Dominican Republic By […]
Help Me…I am being held in a Soviet Work Camp
I am beginning to doubt my ability to survive the quarantine. The Soviet makes me do things… I am looking for a field manual on how to limit the demands of a Spousal Unit during a National Crisis. Item on the list #17 – Clean out the entire Dryer Duct…seriously? How do they come […]
‘Miracle on Ice’ team struggles with backlash from donning ‘Keep America Great’ hats at Trump rally.
From the Washington Post: The team became the latest group entangled in the fierce cultural fight over the meaning of the Trump campaign’s most successful piece of merchandise, which critics view as a symbol of hate and racism. The “Miracle” team is the latest group to become entangled in the fierce cultural fight over the […]
China’s 70th Anniversary
This month is the 70th anniversary of Mao Tse-Tung’s establishment of a communist dictatorship in China. Xi JinPing may have taken his place, and China may be thriving in the material sense, through its manufacturing and exporting base, but things have really not changed at all. When World War II ended, and before the Korean […]
Hi, Spy!
There is a joint agreement about spy plane flyovers that was in the news. They get to do it to us, but we also get to do it to them. https://wgntv.com/2019/08/14/russian-spy-plane-spotted-flying-over-chicago/ From the WGN article: CHICAGO — Just as Chicagoans were settling into dinner, and the White Sox were in the middle of a doubleheader […]
Cold War Redux?
Some good stuff about US-Ukraine relations here, and how we’re training Ukrainian troops in situ to use good hardware like Javelins. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2019/03/06/more-lethal-aid-to-ukraine-us-trainers-javelins-have-already-made-russians-a-little-more-nervous/ From the article: The U.S. has been providing lethal aid in the form of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine since May, and Russian armor is reportedly deterred by the investment. On top of the […]
Update on Russian Explosion
From the Times of Israel comes this update on what happened in northern Russia on August 8th: https://www.timesofisrael.com/radiation-spiked-up-to-16-times-normal-after-russian-nuclear-missile-blast/ From the article: Unnamed intelligence sources told The New York Times that they believed the explosion involved a prototype missile known in NATO circles as the SSC-X-9 Skyfall, which could theoretically reach anywhere on the planet. Russian President […]
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