Day 1
Photo: My Facebook chit chat before leaving work on February 23, 2022 News galore this morning on Putin’s not-so-secret sneak attack, but nary a mention of...
A Separate Reality
After the previous episode of the tragicomedy, many fans were impressed by Tiger Team’s multi-faceted intelligence-sourced universe of invasion plans,...
In Principle, If
Perhaps you share my reaction to in principle, if summits: as soon as I hear about one, a filmy layer of distrust and seething hatred gets in the way, and I...
Air Drums Over Kyiv
Video: courtesy of FoxNews Have you smacked a Ukraine expert today? I listened to the president’s scream for attention in Munich amid all this death and...
On the Roasting of Chicken
Photo c/o abdymok What happened: There was a cat door. Some time ago Ukraine managed to destroy this cat door in an attempt, one imagines, to get through it....
WTF?
The following is the On Ukraine part of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s wacko letter to the United States and NATO. The collection of words is an excellent...
The Big Sig
Photo c/o abdymok Where I lived before, finding one’s bearings was simple: to the West was The Zone (well, a place populated by civies, a bunch of countries,...
To Kill a Dragon
A quick xlation of practicing philosopher Volodymyr Pastukhov’s take on the Russia-Ukraine war drama appearing on February 14, 2022, courtesy of Echo Moscow....
'It's Your Duty, My Beauty'
During the last several months I’ve read many probabilistic analyses of the possibility that Russia intends to further invade Ukraine. Their authors conclude...
Lost in Translation
Imminent and inevitable are synonyms, with a difference. An event that is “imminent” is about to happen, occur or take place very soon, especially an event...
On the Edge of Inanity
President Volodymyr Zelensky. Photo c/o President’s Office The disclosure on January 28, 2022 about blood supplies by U.S. officials, speaking on condition...
Putin's 'Psychic Attack'
On January 26, 2021, Ex-MSD lawyer turned London-based lecturer Vladimir Pastukhov makes a couple of interesting points about the Ukraine-Russia mess in his...
Russia's Sick Logic
Ex-MSD lawyer and London-based political scientist Vladimir Pastukhov thinks it’s entirely possible that Russia has been orchestrating a months-long...
Attack of the Vengeful Hairdresser
Imagine, for a moment, the future of English-language news about Ukraine. You're minding your own business and browsing the web, checking social media, or...
Big Day Wednesday
Tony’s schedule in Kyiv on Wednesday: 10.45 - U.S. Embassy pow wow w/ staff 12:30 - Chit chat w/ Ze 14:00 - Chit chat w/ FM15:30 - Press conference w/ FM...
Please, Like Me
This is kind of funny. Bohdan Nahayalo, a harmless, affable bumpkin known for a near-creepy obsession with himself (teehee, those were the days at United...
Stay Out of Doorways!
I practically never look at the greasy rag anymore, only nipping in now and again to see what press release Padraig has lightly edited, or to chuckle at...
Axis of Weasels
Must be horrible, being Kassym-Jomart Kemelevich Tokayev, the weasel who last week demonstrated his allegiance to Moscow’s Collective Security Treaty...
Wolf Update
Trackers with heat-vision goggles showed up this morning around 5.00 a.m. to look for the female wolf running around Kyiv National Botanical Garden. They...
Weightless Self-promotion
Photo courtesy of Iuliia Mendel It’s churlish to dwell on all that can go wrong with the professional journalist. True, some aren’t completely annoying to be...
