I have a more down to earth explanation for where we are today. Putin is guaranteeing we're well out of the way so we're not available to stop a Russian move against Europe. He'll retake all the countries that escaped Soviet Russia, and then move against Western Europe.

1/ Putin's only 65. He has no serious opposition beyond Angela Merkel, and nobody has the level of espionage that his country has. Look at us. We're eating our own in an attempt to get Trump out of office, which Russian influence managed from the other side of the world.

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Chewing on a new blog post, thanks to some recent ugly discourse on FB regarding immigration & the military. From the same source, some months ago, I got asked how I felt about Nazi re-enactors who came to local events. Now I'm chewing on why re-enactments are needed at all. 1/x Seems to me, taking the losing side is an exercise in selective filtering. How do you play a Nazi without believing they were right? I mean, this is more than just a war game where you pick up a tiny plastic figure and put it on a table-based battlefield to explore strategy. 2/x

I think it's adorable that people still think they've had any "choice" in who we vote for. There was only ever the winners and the losers. They don't call it "third party" for nothing. 1/ And when the winners feel free to rig the election at the voting box, it doesn't really matter who took the election as long as the criminals who certify false numbers aren't held accountable. 2/