Ian Kummer

Paul Whelan’s problem was that he is a straight white man, so the US regime had zero interest in getting him back. Not black or jewish, not even gay, so he was dead last on the list to be traded. Whelan also slipped up and admitted to being a Trump supporter. So during the Biden … Read more

Today by chance I happened to learn about someone I had never heard of before, George Blake, most heroic person in British history. Born George Behar, the son of an Egyptian Jew and a Dutch woman (the widowed mother later changed their family name to Blake to avoid antisemitism) in 1922, he studied Russian literature … Read more

The Walking Dead starts okay but gets really repetitive. The lore also makes no sense. You would think the writers could have just read the comic and reconcile all the plot elements ahead of time, but no. In the first season it is established that walkers biting you is bad and turns you into a … Read more

Russian casualties are in the grand scheme of things not very high. Western wars of choice just tend to be so deeply unpopular, any casualties greater than zero are considered high and get backlash. Consider the second battle of Falujah in 2004. The insurgents inflicted a little over 500 casualties, including around 100 killed, on … Read more