Web of War

Good Wednesday morning beloved sentients. Yesterday was a travel day and now we’re safely ensconced in our little suite in the lower mainland. I have to admit my prediction in my last post that Trump would TACO out of his trip to China was wrong. He’s there now. I guess I thought the pressure of […]

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(Psycho)Path to War – Day 73

Will Trump visit China this week? Illustration courtesy Sonar21 Good Monday morning beloved sentients. Well, as my mother used to say…”It’s time to either fish or cut bait.” Or, to use a cruder metaphor: “It’s time to either sh!t or get off the pot.” Trump has been dallying for weeks now with his “ceasefire” while […]

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The Set-Up

Good Sunday morning beloved sentients. Today is Mother’s Day and I wish all the mothers of the world a happy one as I await hearing from all my chicks. I have three children. My eldest, a daughter, is a doctor and according to her brief e-mail to me this morning she’s in the Amsterdam airport […]

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Negotiating with a Madman

Good Wednesday morning beloved sentients. Looks like Trump is desperate for a deal…he’s being pressured not by his supplicant slavish servile aids/advisers…but by the pressure of oncoming events: Trump is desperate but remains completely clueless about how to achieve his ends in international negotiations. The most he’s ever done in terms of negotiation is New […]

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Asymmetric warfare

Good Sunday morning beloved sentients. Just a short post for today because we’re going out for a Mother’s Day brunch a week early. We’ve found over the years that Mother’s Day proper [next Sunday] is impossible…with all the restaurants totally booked and inaccessible. You might say we’re using an asymmetrical means to achieve our goal […]

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Calculated Lies

Good Saturday morning beloved sentients. There is a lull in the “kinetic” war. Don’t you just love the word “kinetic” that’s being used to replace “bloody”? So technical and dry. Just another linguistic lie to go with all the others that make up the West’s non stop preying on Middle Eastern nations due to their […]

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