mystique and determination

 

"Keep calm and carry on" -- a favorite British saying.  I've thought of this phrase a few times lately, while trying to think of different ways to make myself more like the Queen, when she was alive.

On You Tube, there's a video --

Tina Brown on the Queen's Mystique

uploader / channel:  CBS Sunday Morning

Five-and-a-half minutes, it's interesting.

On Netflix, there's a limited series called The Business of Drugs.  It's educational and horrifying at the same time.

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Yesterday the Washington Post had an article about the war in Ukraine -- Ukraine was having a good week.

reader comments:

~ Now Vladimir is cursing

He's losing in Ukraine

Thought it would be piece of cake

It's driving him insane

Oligarchs are angry now

Their yachts and mansions gone

Putie got his Waterloo

Zelensky brought him down

~ Zelensky already said Ukraine won't accept any peace that has Ukraine giving up territory.  Putin has lost, it is only a question of how expensive he wants to make his loss at this point.

~ The real end game here, the ONLY viable way to find a truly lasting peace that guarantees Ukrainian sovereignty, is to eliminate Vladimir Putin from the equation.  My sense is that every Intelligence Agency in the world gets this, too, and they are doing everything in their power to make it happen.  

This is no guarantee of success, but I am guessing (hoping) that Putin is more vulnerable today than he has ever been.

~ Sounds like a job for the Israelis.

~ While Putin is a horrible military strategist, he is ex-KGB, and he does know how to protect himself.  I think that even Mossad could not get him.

~ I said this the other day:  Israeli Intelligence community + CIA + MI6 -- Git 'er done!

~ This must be a terrible blow to the Russian psyche because militarism is the essence of their national character.  Russia might be backward, poor, cruel and ugly, but it always comforted itself that it was really tough.

        I mean this is a country that since 1945 has had about 46 closed "military cities" that even ordinary Russians can't enter, all devoted to dreaming up exotic ways to kill and dominate foreigners.  And this failed war against a much smaller neighbour is the sum total of their achievement.

        Without their militarism, they have nothing left.

~ Russian militarism has been a plague on the world for at least 400 years.

~ When your army has to steal bikes in order to flee.....

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