Vladimir Putin has been working himself up to do...something. V-E day fell on the ninth of May in Moscow, just a minute after midnight, and it's still a big deal in Russia.
I expect that by the end of that day this year, Russia will have taken some kind of dramatic action. It could be very bad; Moscow's TV pundits are pretty much everything bad anyone in this county has imagined about the yapping heads on MSNBC or Fox News, turned up to eleven while fat and happy on government paychecks. Discussing WW III, one of them recently pointed out that if worse came to worst, Russians could count on going to heaven while people in the West "would just croak." --I'm starting to miss the atheistic Soviet Union; there are few things worse than a foe convinced of getting a good seat in the next life and the Soviets were (at least officially) sure that this life was all they were going to get.
This is the world we've got and the clock's ticking. Maybe it'll just be a ramp-up in the conventional war in Ukraine, and that will be horrific enough. It could be far worse. We're not going to know until May tenth.
But I wouldn't start any really big jigsaw puzzles right now, just in case.
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Guess I buy more bottled water and check my canned goods.
Shoot, I hope my travel plans to visit my mom (on the 11th, she lives nearly 1000 miles away) don't go up in a mushroom cloud :(
I wish I could reject this reality and substitute my own
I hope that you’re wrong.
I fear that you are not.
It appears that Putler punted on this. For which I am truly thankful.
I will be happy to be shown wrong, but I'm not going to celebrate until the ninth of May is over everywhere.
As I type this, it's 0105 on Tuesday, May 10th in Moscow and Kyiv, so I think we're good.
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