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March 21, 2022
- Reviewing the real world order in 2022 (Comment) LONDON – Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, many people have expressed their shock and horror at Vladimir Putin’s violation of international law and the death of the “rules-based world order”, but there’s actually no reason for surprise. Those people just never understood what the rules really were.
March 18, 2022
- 2023 – enjoying a visit with Grandad Smiling broadly, Grandad tousled the hair of the small child.
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Putin is destroying himself and his country (Comment) “Be wary of great leaders.”
- A harasser, you say? By Jove, you’re rehired! (Editorial) Sometimes, and surprisingly, the most disturbing of events can conjure the most modest reactions, at least in public fora.
March 16, 2022
- How Ukraine committed a big nuclear mistake Would Vladimir Putin’s Russia have invaded Ukraine 3 1/2 weeks ago if it had 1,900 nuclear warheads on 176 ICBMs and 2,600 tactical nuclear weapons?
March 11, 2022
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The $2 billion arrives; the struggles endure “It’s a funny old world,” a doleful Margaret Thatcher famously mused.
- 2023 – I guess they don’t want to scare me Sneezing suddenly, the big yellow dog squashed small child squeezed between older woman and wood truck driver.
- Ukraine: taking stock after the pause (Comment) More than two weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and still no “decapitation” of the Ukrainian government, no city captured except Kherson (which no non-Ukrainian had ever heard of before the war), and maybe 2,000 military dead on each side.
March 7, 2022
- Is Putin a junkie madman on steroids? It was my wife, Tina, who noticed it first, three weeks ago.
March 4, 2022
- 2023 – death from COVID jab suicide, says court A horn honked and the wood truck driver called. “Hey, kid, ready to go?”
- The road to reconciliation reaches the schools (Editorial) The road to reconciliation reaches the schools (Editorial)