Tom

A yes; my mistake. I had assumed there would be a few more novels that would involve taking the Peace fleet to Earth. Maybe some day. I have read, then, all the series as it stands. More would be nice. Keep your health and try not to get early heart attacks over the rot in the USA government.
I hope you did not get vaxxed. Most of my Texas and lower Alabama family did. Neither I nor my son, daughter in law and the kids did. If you did get vaxxed I can offer up some strategies I use to fight the covid. If I ever got it the symptoms were so slight as to be not noticed. I do maintain a prophylaxis based on Ivermectin, zinc, D3A, B complex, etc.
Now, we have to hope there won’t be any nukes come a calling. To me sounds like Russia is a first rate military with some nasty hardware.
Hang in there and I will try and keep alert for any new books.

I just check dlive and the video is still there on replay. If you want to check it out Episode 853
https://dlive.tv/voxday

https://dlive.tv/p/dlive-iihktbijwb+23Aw3oPng

OBADSDL(PBUH) dedicated an entire Darkstream to this article? Wow. That is pretty neat.

I don’t have access to the Darkstreams anymore, since they are all behind a paywall, but I have to say, that is a very good way to start off the weekend.

Thank you, sir.

You know, it’s funny you mention boxing vs grappling – I was thinking yesterday, after I wrote this, about the Russian approach to combat sambo, which is their homegrown style of MMA. If you watch Khabib Nurmagomedov or another top-level sambist, you will see that they approach combat by immediately neutralising an opponent’s best weapons, taking him down, and then literally squeezing and suffocating the life out of him. Watch the Khabib-Conor fight for a classic example of it. That’s what the Russians are doing in Ukraine – with second-string troops and equipment, generally speaking, except for the Chechens.

It’s scary effective when done right. It is essentially methodical pressure-fighting designed to strangle an enemy into submission – and if he doesn’t give up early, he will sustain tremendous damage. Conor, for instance, has never been the same since that fight.

A bit like a boxer vs a grappler…one has the fireworks and wants the quick shot to win, the other actually does win.
(Your boy Buakow notwithstanding)

This is the difference between running a war machine to win wars and a war machine to sell weapons to subsidize congressional districts.

Both are superior to the eurozone strategy of just not doing much of anything… but what a growth market for Lockheed and Raytheon!

I did finish it, Jack, with Days of Burning, Days of Wrath. Now, I might go to a second series someday, Hamilcar’s liberation of old Earth…if I live long enough.

And thanks.

Also, look at map 2, below. It shows Kiev and Kharkov as not surrounded, where the upper map shows at least Kharkov as surrounded. Why? Well, you don’t actually need to physically block every meter around a city to have it under siege. All you need is artillery that can range and observation of the ways in and out. By that measure, both Kiev and Kharkov are surrounded and under siege.

Speaking of sieges, no, the Russians are not going to let any large number of people out of the cities. Oh, a few token ones, sure, but that traffic will come to a screeching halt soon enough. Why? Because they lack the infantry to clear the cities; just flat don’t have enough. Nobody, by the way, does. So the only way they’re getting them, short of the Ukrainians asking for terms, is via starvation. For that, you want to force the civilians to stay inside, even if you have to kill some to do that (yes, it’s lawful), to force them to eat up the food.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18324/putin-one-man-war