- Putin propagandists accuse Ukraine of an air strike on a fuel depot within Russian borders. Green Eagle raises an obvious point.
- Not all Russians buy into Putin lies:
- Nojo finds a cute little cartoon video created by a Ukrainian girl about a tractor capturing and pulling a tank. Everyone singing and dancing as they roll merrily along. War enters everything.
- Workforce managers have been boring their yawning staff members long before I became elderly, with useful aphorisms like Fail to Plan = Plan to Fail! And now, Putin ends up proving them right as rain!
Bastard!
Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit sees one reason Ukraine has been so successful so far in so kicking an invading bully in the tail. In several years of preparing for the conflict that Putin planned and Ukrainians anticipated, Ukrainians were astonishingly smart, and Putin’s group were comically witless.
- Infidel753 suggests one source for Putin miscalculation. Intelligence failures can be caused by a single characteristic pretty much baked in to power grasping authoritarianism.
- Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger points to an extreme percentage of the world living under authoritarian regimes and suggests an overarching reason Ukraine’s fight against Putin’s invasion has become especially important.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors has the numbers. It seems Tucker Carlson is unable to convince even his most ardent followers that Vlad Putin is the good guy in the Ukraine invasion.
- There are other lessons to be learned as well: like how to be an authentic human:
- In News Corpse President Biden is derisive about Peter Doocy’s demand that the President publicly reveal strategic contingency plans about what the US might do if Putin uses chemical weapons in Ukraine.
- Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged explains that, in hearing President Biden’s “ad-lib” about Putin, we may want to keep in mind the target audience.
- In Letters from an American, noted historian Heather Cox Richardson examines economic news. With no help, no votes, just foot dragging opposition from Republicans, President Biden presides over astonishingly fast job creation and record low unemployment. Inflation is high, but appears to be a global problem, not endemic to the US.
- Republicans have been on this path at least since those wayback days when I was just a lad. Frances Langum reports they are still at it, as they once more unveil plans to slash Social Security and Medicare.
And that is not all we may experience:
- Mitch McConnell demands that Republicans oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson for the Supreme Court. Scottie is irritated at the lack of principle or even a coherent phony argument for his opposition.
- Usually indecisive Senator from Maine will be voting for Ketanji Brown Jackson after all. Andy Borowitz reports that Senate Republicans are planning to punish Susan Collins by making her sit next to Rand Paul.
- PZ Myers watches a police raid on the home of an anti-abortion activist, where they discover… Holy Mother of God!!.
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