Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Friday, November 11, 2022

One Reason Not to Pay Attention to "Think Tanks"


That they were so horribly wrong is, by now, patently obvious.

6 comments:

Jimmy T said...

The "Ode to Joy" is insufficient to describe this joyous occasion...

Jones, Jon Jones said...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/11/russia-kherson-retreat-marks-tectonic-shift-in-ukraine-war

Eck! said...

Playing devil advocate...for a moment.

One of the unknowns was how good Russian weapons were
and did they have them in quantity and of sufficient
quality.

If you believed the Russian hype they did.

Ukraine was the proof case, yes they had them but
not enough of them. Of those the quality was random.
Additionally the production capability was limited.

At the same time the west taking in that hype were
in a state of incremental improvement. So the wests
weapons were up to the task and would based on my
earlier comment exceed the Russian product.

So was he right? I think he failed to take in
the things that made Russia fail. Simple things
like corruption, economic limits, leadership. It
was also a message that if the west sat on their
laurels the tools of war might not be up to
the task.

Than again did anyone of us read that?


Eck!

Ten Bears said...

That last paragraph is how I've been seeing it, Eck! Bigger 'n his britches.

EYaw, Murkkkians should probably pay attention ...

Jones, Jon Jones said...

It's still Chapter Nine of The Dictator's Handbook
Democracies v Autocracies. Training, logistics and kit are features of democracies. Ukraine is using kit from both worlds.

Paul said...

the think tanks should pay out refunds whenever they're wrong.

All our prayers to Ukraine and Ukrainians recovering from the painful destruction that Putin and Russia inflicted on them.

The rest of the world needs to be screaming in Putin's face about the thousands of kidnapped Ukrainians who should return to their homes.