For 242 days, Russians tried to wrestle the Donetsk Airport away from a handful of Ukrainian fighters. Many of the best Russian special ops soldiers were killed in the effort. Many Chechens were killed.

The Donetsk Airport became a symbol of Ukraine ‘ s heroic resistance in the face of a much more powerful and numerous enemy force.

Finally, the Russians realized that they weren’t going to achieve the feat they’d been promising the avid TV viewers back in Russia and capture the airport. So in a fit of blind fury, they destroyed it.

Here is what the Donetsk Airport looks like now:

This is what it looked like before:

And this:

So much senseless destruction, so much death.

But at least the Russian TV viewers are happy because tonight’s shows will be especially fun to watch. The destruction of the airport is being massively celebrated right now in Russia. Now they have really shown the evil Americans who’s boss!

Reader Stille asked a very important question as to what the difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is at this point.

I believe that underneath all of the empty sloganeering aimed at people who like to hear familiar and comforting sounds all of the time, there is a single yet crucial distinction:

Republicans believe that if you’ve got to cut a dog’s tail off, it’s better to do it in a single clean cut instead of dragging out the painful process indefinitely. They want to roll back the nation-state ‘ s caring government* now and let the post-nation – state sweep in immediately.

Democrats, on the other hand, believe that the transformation will be painful and there is still time to soften the blow.
This contrast can be easily observed in Obama’s extremely proactive SOTU last night and the Republican insistence on tinkering with the boring issue of abortion in the newly Republican congress. The Congress chose to concentrate on this matter precisely because it’s so irrelevant to the voters. The downside of the caring government was always its obsessive need to control and legislate morality. It is no longer possible for a government to do that, and the Republican Congress is reminding us (not consciously, of course) what we will be gaining when we let the nation-state go.

It’s time to stop clinging to our old party allegiances** and reevaluate them in view of the new reality. Do you believe that the transition away from the nation-state should be softened? Or do you believe that it makes no sense to drag the process out?

I obviously believe that it should be softened as much as possible.

* As we have learned in our discussions of the nation-state, such a caring government is both a wonderful and a horrible thing.

** An incapacity to let go of old systems of belief and change one’s mind is a symptom of intellectual caducity.

You know why I almost never buy food to go? Because the chances that I’ll drop it into the biggest puddle available right outside the restaurant are enormous. As I just discovered.

Russians hated yesterday’s State of the Union Address. They are polluting the media with rabid excretions of how much they hated it. Here is just one example:

“The Americans have taken the course of confrontation and do not assess their own steps critically at all,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference.

“Yesterday’s speech by President Obama shows that at the center of the (U.S.) philosophy is only one thing: ‘We are number one and everyone else has to recognize that’ … It shows that the United States wants all the same to dominate the world and not merely be first among equals.”

I told you it was a great speech. Would the Russians have hated it so much if it sucked?

Don’t be a Russian! Support the SOTU!

So who saw the State of the Union address? It was the best one in years. I totally loved it.

Good speech, good country, good people. I’m feeling very patriotic right now. Maybe I’ll put up the flag tomorrow.

Idiot Lefties are salivating over Putin because they think he offers an alternative to the United States. What they don’t realize, though, is that it’s an alternative from the far Right instead of from the Left like these pissants imagine. 

While the idiots in Europe are looking for any excuse to help out their idol Putin and remove the sanctions, he spits into their faces and goes on the offensive in Ukraine.

Hollande now looks massively stupid with his pleadings to let sanctions against Putin expire. Two days after Hollande’s bleatings on the subject, Putin unleashed a massive campaign in support of the Paris terrorists. A week later, his troops destroyed a bus filled with Ukrainian civilians and a massive new wave of invasion into Ukraine began.

Putin is not even trying to be liked by Europeans. But their love for him continues growing.

Five Russian citizens, believed to be Chechens, have been arrested in the south of France on suspicion that they were preparing a terrorist attack.
Authorities said that a cache of explosives was discovered during a series of police raids overnight in Béziers and near Montpellier on the Mediterranean coast.

These are the same Chechens Putin is using in his war against Ukraine. And the same Chechens who followed Putin ‘ s lead and came out to the strength of 800,000 to celebrate the Charlie Hebdo murders the other day.

Keep flirting with Putin. It totally makes sense.

Ukraine ‘ s President Poroshenko was making a speech in Zurich. Russian provocateurs kept interrupting him, yelling insults.

“It’s OK, let them speak,” Poroshenko said. “Everybody needs a chance to speak their mind. And these guys aren’t given that opportunity back in Russia.”

The freaks at Naked Capitalism have gone completely soft in their sad little excuses for heads. They are now blaming the war in Ukraine on… Estonians who, they suggest, have somehow organized the hostilities with the purpose of money-making.

Yes, those Estonian – masonic bastards totally own the world.

Just in case anybody is still wondering where I find all those Putinoid Lefties.