Another Saturday filled with the Ukraine war, accompanied by all the Twitter experts telling us how it is being won or lost. Twitters advantage is that you can link to many actual experts when other news sources dig them out, and ignore the usual suspects. Wiser articles can be found, the personnel tend to be more sober, more sombre, and do not concentrate on the horrors, just the facts.
I came across one such US individual this morning and like the silly old fool I am I did not link it! Now I search Twitter and he does not reappear, it is Saturday and football dominates the page.
This expert, who certainly has knowledge of Russian ways (he has authored two volumes about Stalin and is working on the third). His view is that Putin is similar to those previous Russian leaders, Stalin, Alexander, Peter the Great, in that they are tyrants to some degree. I agree with much of what he said, based on my reading of 'Comparing Stalin and Hitler,' by Bullock, in that the Russial mentality is where we ought to be looking, not looking at Russia from a 'western' viewpoint. Only the secret services will remove Putin, and that does not seem likely. This man implied the war is not over, it will take years, and the Russians will develop their tactics. We may see much street fighting from now on.
Being Saturday I expect lots of this sort of thing going on tonight. This will not include me, and certainly not dressed in 1934 garb. Sadly I canny find who the photographer is, I suspect it may be Bert Hardy. Great photo, and I must find more to liven this page up.
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