Monday, December 8, 2025
Sunday, December 7, 2025
How to get Russian troops to surrender in large numbers
Instead of using drones to kill them one or two at a time, drop leaflets and broadcast a message from a loudspeaker on the drone.
What matters is the method that gets the most Russian troops, alive or not, off the battlefield.
During Desert Storm, Iraqi troops surrendered to drones by waving white flags when the heard the drones' engines.
It's unlikely Russian troops will retreat Highway of Death style, and Ukraine does not have enough combat aircraft to intercept a retreating convoy.
choose your fighter
Heavily defend the main targets and ignore the loss of others.
Compare and contrast: drones vs artillery
Drones cannot replace tanks and artillery.
Saturday, December 6, 2025
Strengthening Ukraine's defenses with surplus Albanian bunkers
Ukraine is and must remain on the defensive. Clearing Russian trenches, booby traps, and obstacles is a waste of scarce manpower and other resources. The same is true of propaganda flag raisings. The only flag raising that matters in war is the last one. Borrow or build Albanian bunkers. If a small country like Albania can do it, so can Ukraine. Also, Albania is about a 1-day drive from Kyiv.
Let the Russians try to weather a storm of steel like this:
Or this:
Dropping leaflets and using sound trucks would work better for getting Russian troops to surrender.
Offering young Ukrainian men who fled the chance to return and make fortifications would make the country much easier to defend.
I should add that concrete bunkers (especially camouflaged ones) are a much better defense against artillery and drones than trenches, barbed wire, or sandbags.
Russia uses a simple yet costly tactic - they send out a squad or platoon with a small amount of ammo while officers in the rear observe how far they get before they are fired upon by Ukrainian troops. Then they use that location info to fire artillery at those same Ukrainian troops.
Remember that many if not most Ukrainian soldiers are in their 40s. Men that old often have a hard time keeping up with the physical demands of soldiering.
Russia captures Pokrovsk & Myrnohrad almost surrounded
Reminds me of an old cartoon:
Then they charge each other's forts and replace the flags.
A rear guard would allow most of the Ukrainian troops to escape. That would leave a stay behind force to fend for itself with a high probability of capture. All available air power to include drones should be
used to keep the escape route open. There is not use in recapturing Pokrovsk or any other city now held by Russia.
Friday, December 5, 2025
Thursday, December 4, 2025
Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Ukraine captures buildings for propaganda?
In the video below, a squad of Ukrainians seek to raise the flag above a destroyed town held by Russians. Assuming it is not propaganda, it's a waste of men and equipment to make such an insignificant gain.
Ukraine can afford to waste their resources on do-nothing counterattacks or photo-ops. They need layered defense belts of trenches, minefields, pre-sighting of roads for artillery, and staged vehicles to evacuate troops in danger of being overrun.
Tuesday, December 2, 2025
life finds a way
Take away the benefits of chastity and celibacy, and all that's left is survival and reproduction. Dog eat dog, natural selection, law of the jungle, kill or be killed.
Helion Prime - Life Finds A Way (Official Video)
Monday, December 1, 2025
take away the carrot, and only the stick remains
Probably the oddest result of the so-called sexual revolution is the demonization of chastity and celibacy. Delayed gratification is the bedrock of civilization and marriage is built upon that foundation. If men and women have no hope of stable, long-term relationships that produce children, there won't be a new generation to keep every other institution going. Put another way, every man who can't find a woman means another woman who can't find a man.
For the vast majority of human history, the only way men and women could be sure about paternity was though chastity. Men in general do not want to pay for the upkeep of children who aren't theirs nor the women who gave birth to them. Women do not want to be stuck caring for children with no man to help.
In prior centuries and even today, celibate people have been some of the most productive and creative. Science, art, philosophy, etc are largely the products of men who either couldn't or didn't have offspring. If the carrot is sex, children, and companionship, then the stick includes things like a tax on bachelors, outlawing prostitution, and censoring explicit media.
Religions like Christianity and Islam do a good job of have the right mix of carrots and sticks, but secular urban liberalism has been gnawing away at both for more than half a century. If the incentives are weakened or broken, they lose their effectiveness. It amuses me that only a country as bipolar puritanical as the US would consider the loss of virginity such a large milestone on the path life. There's a reason why marriages are often expensive, public celebrations while one's first orgasm is not.
Sex is not a mystery to those who grow up around farm animals or watch lots of nature documentaries.
It's important to realize that most pop culture comes from a very small subset of the secular, urban population. For that subset, sexual is probably the most interesting and memorable sensation they ever experience. Oh yeah, and it can be proved mathematically that most people lie about their number of sexual partners, because every time a man had sex with a woman, a woman has sex with a man. The same is true for LGBT etc.
For those out there feeling embarrassed about their lack of sexual experience, please believe me when I say it really isn't a big deal. The big deal is having a baby to take care of when you didn't want one. Incurable STDs also exist. In general, it's a mistake to seek validation from others.
We should all be glad we don't reproduce like these critters:
Chinese lion-dogs (shishi)
In a similar way, the walrus got its name from Vikings who thought it looked like a cross between a whale and a horse.
Supposedly, Godzilla started out as Gojira because it looked like a cross between a gorilla (gorira)and a whale (kujira).
Sunday, November 30, 2025
Saturday, November 29, 2025
Use fungus to kill termites or mosquitoes?
Longifolene could be synthesized and used to bait some other kind of trap.
Friday, November 28, 2025
pincers and encirclements - Siversk and Lyman
Ukraine can slow Russian advances to a crawl, but they will increasingly face the choice of losing men and territory or just losing territory while retreating to other more defensible positions.
Stay-behind and/or partisan forces could help. The preparation for that needs to come well in advance of any other retreat.
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Operation Gladio was a covert NATO operation during the Cold War, designed to establish "stay-behind" armies in Europe to counter potential Soviet invasions and influence, often involving controversial tactics and connections to right-wing terrorism.
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Thursday, November 27, 2025
Wednesday, November 26, 2025
Tuesday, November 25, 2025
nipe tano rafiki
dulce et decorum est pro patria mori?
The following cartoons are even more disturbing than what I had in mind.
Suggested music:
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This poem contains the often-quoted lines:
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."[4][5]
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Monday, November 24, 2025
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