He’s suddenly turning old before our eyes. He’s made the most catastrophic mistake of his life – so catastrophic it has destroyed his country. Worse, there is a part of him that realizes he has the soul of an inhuman monster. His soul is being eaten alive from the inside out. You can see it in his eyes.
He knows he’s lost. He’s down to ordering his soldiers to murder children. What happens now?
The Soviet Union was disintegrating, and I was worried about the nukes. Every democracy leader I talked to in all the Soviet Republics declaring their independence didn’t want them. The problem, of course, was Russia. What was needed was an Anti-Nuclear Movement to guarantee that Russia would not keep its nukes, thus remaining a nuclear threat to America and the West.
I argued for the Reverse Golden Rule – Do Unto Others Before They Do It Unto You. “What would the Russians demand if they had won the Cold War and not us?” I asked. “That’s where our demands should start,” I argued, albeit agreeing that Russia would need a nuclear deterrent against China – but that should be in mutual operation with us.
Alas, that was tragically not to be. Now, all these years later with Putin’s catastrophic miscalculation in Ukraine, we have a second chance.
Thousands are dying from Russian missiles and bombs in the suburbs of Ukraine.
In response, the Biden Administration’s climate-change envoy, multimillionaire and private-jet owning John Kerry, laments that Russian president Vladimir Putin might no longer remain his partner in reducing global warming.
“You’re going to lose people’s focus,” Kerry frets. “You’re going to lose big-country attention because they will be diverted, and I think it could have a damaging impact”
“Impact”?
Did the global moralist Kerry mean by “impact” the over 650 Russian missiles that impacted Ukrainian buildings and tore apart children?
For more than 40 years, the environmentalist movement has been warning that global warming is the result of mankind’s burning of fossil fuels and poses an “existential threat” to human and other biological life.
This is one of the many grandiose lies the Left uses to reshape, if not destroy, Western civilization. It should now be obvious that the “Greens,” the environmentalist movement—not global warming—poses an existential threat to humanity.
Were it not for the green movement, Putin would not have been confident that he could get away with invading Ukraine. Main reason? During Trump’s presidency, and due to his policies, the United States became independent of foreign oil for the first time.
Immediately, starting within minutes of Biden’s inauguration by his killing the Keystone Pipeline, the Democrat Party, an extension of the environmentalist movement, forced America to revert to dependence on foreign oil, including Russian oil. Putin got the message.
The Democrats are well aware of the old adage, “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” and are busy applying it as gas prices spiral out of all control.
On Monday (3/07), Transportation Secretary Pete “Mr. Mom” Buttigieg appeared to be fantastically out of touch when he responded to skyrocketing prices at the pump.
“Clean transportation can bring significant cost savings for the American people as well,” asserted Buttigieg. “Last month, we announced a $5 billion investment to build out a nationwide electric vehicle charging network so that people from rural to suburban to urban communities can all benefit from the gas savings of driving an EV.”
It was a real “Let Them Eat Cake” moment for Secretary Pete, but there is a method to his madness: the administration isn’t just out of touch, it is actively trying to use this crisis to impose its green agenda.
A marriage, a friendship, a close family relationship; all of our important relationships are built on countless moments, innumerable interactions that either build qualities of trust, joy, and respect - or undermine those qualities.
I want to show you what is arguably the most important moment for building a trusting, satisfying, loving relationship.
We can often think that what makes a difference in a romantic relationship, or our relationship with our kids, or other friends and relatives, are the big things; the romantic getaway for the weekend, or the great gift that we buy. But there is a moment that packs more leverage, more meaning, and more potential for doing good – or harm – than almost any other:
For investors; truly unprecedented economic changes have occurred in international economic relations during the past week, and we are now in unpredictable chaotic territory:
On The Cusp Of An Economic Singularity
Yippee!! Green Is Dead!! Putin's invasion of the Ukraine may have triggered a tipping point in Green versus Reality, at least in the EU:
Green Is Dead: EU Energy Roadmap Has Shifted From Decarbonization To Energy Security
By 78% to 18% likely American voters favor more domestic oil, gas, and coal production - and it is 55% to 27% among 'Crats:
70% Want Increased Domestic Oil Production, Only 18% Oppose
We close with What can you do to protect yourself from this plausible though less than certain chaos:
You likely read the new story this week of the extraordinary discovery of Antarctic legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton’s ship The Endurance 10,000 feet deep at the bottom of the Weddell Sea: Ernest Shackleton’s Sunken Ship Endurance Found 107 Years Later (3/09).
Perhaps you read my account of his incredible exploits in Endurance (April 2013). I thought to commemorate the ship’s discovery with this photo of me at Shackleton’s gravesite at the abandoned whaling station of Grytviken on the Antarctic island of South Georgia.
Shackleton was the most heroic arctic explorer of them all. The famous eulogy at his funeral says it all:
(Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #192 photo ©Jack Wheeler)For scientific discovery, give me Scott
For speed and efficiency of travel, give me Amundsen
But when disaster strikes and all hope is gone
Get down on your knees and pray for Shackleton
The horrifically heroic Battle of Tarawa was fought November 20-23, 1943, with the US Marines determined to take the entrenched Japanese – which they did, both sides suffering ghastly losses. The Marine amphibious force assaulted the Japanese garrison on the small island of Betio in Tarawa Atoll of the Gilbert Islands – now the country of Kirimati.
The spearhead of the assault was led by the Marine’s Charlie Company, 1st Corps Tank Battalion and its M4-A2 Shermans on what was codenamed Red Beach. One particular Sherman sank a few yards offshore and lies there to this day. It’s easy to wade out and clamber upon it, as these friends of mine did when I brought them there in 2016.
We hear a lot about “climate change” causing “the oceans to rise.” But as you can see, the sea level at Tarawa has been the same for the past 77 years. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #124 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)
There may no island of more astonishing beauty and more ideal climate than Madeira, nor a place of more idyllic peace, where the rest of the world and its calamities are far, far away. Yet it’s not far at all from the US, a few hours’ flight across the Atlantic from the East Coast.
Here is where Winston Churchill came, to relax, paint, and escape from the woes of war.
Here is where you can simply enjoy life in blissful beauty – if you join me in our exploration of Atlantic Paradises, June 24 to July 2. Look at the pictures, ponder the value of what you’ll see, do, and experience. I hope I’ll be hearing a, “Hey, Jack, I’m in!” from you soon.
In these days of crisis, CJCS General Mark Milley is making sure our country will be protected from America’s worst dangers, white supremacists and enemies of inclusion and diversity, by New Army Thtrong!
Well, of course he is. He’s the world’s pariah, the most despised human on Earth now – especially with his troops bombing then seizing Europe’s largest nuclear power plant last night (3/03). Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted the hopes of countless millions all over the world:
This set a lot of folks’ hair on fire. Yet it’s become common. On Tuesday (3/01), Issues & Insights declared: Putin Must Go.
“Word has come tumbling out that Russian Vladimir Putin is descending into madness. Is it too much to ask true Russian patriots to rid the world of this tyrant before he does further damage?”Indeed, he looks so bad these days the Daily Mail is calling him Flabby-mir Putin: Russia's President Vladimir looks bloated and ashen in meeting as pressure of his Ukrainian invasion takes its toll on his appearance.
Before we go any further, take a moment for a quick read on why Ukraine Has Won and Putin Has Lost by British military expert Glen Grant on TTP earlier today.
Okay, with all that understood, let’s talk about the opportunities amidst the dangers of Putin’s war, and the damage this war is going to do to the Democrat Party.
And how did Ukraine’s military first get American Javelins? From President Trump, first in 2017, again in 2019, and lastly at the end of 2020. Those 300 Javelins that Xiden said he sent last January were those first authorized by POTUS.
Which is why in his CPAC speech on Saturday (2/26) he stated: "I gave Ukraine the Javelins that everyone is now talking about and millions of dollars of other military equipment—the Obama administration gave them blankets."
POTUS made clear his view on what Putin has done and whose side he is on:
"Joe Biden has turned calm into chaos, competence into incompetence, stability into anarchy, and security into catastrophe. The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling; it's an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur. We are praying for the proud people of Ukraine. God bless them all."
It is no wonder that this week’s issue of Time Magazine, appearing today (2/28), has this cover:
Yet the subtitle is wrong. It should be, “How Putin Shattered Russia’s Dreams.” Here is why that is the likely outcome of what is happening in Ukraine right now.
Against all the odds, Ukraine has won this war militarily. It has won because it has fought bravely and skillfully and now there is nothing Russia can do to change the political and social structure of the country.
Putin has lost big time and all he does now will create more damage against his own country than he can deliver against Ukraine. But it is unclear if he realizes or even cares about the mess Russia is in.
The destruction and murder of civilians goes on day and night, in Kharkiv and other cities, because like a petulant ex-lover, Putin wants to destroy Ukraine. It is an “if I cannot have her no-one will attitude.” But he has been jilted – it is over for him.
Many observers are questioning the mental health of Vladimir Putin these days, and for very good reason. After all, what kind of leader engages in such brute activity toward the people of a neighboring country who have done nothing to earn his savage rage?
Yes, what sort of man?
It is high time that I publicly share a story about Putin that I’ve shared with my students for several years now, since it was first told to me. I’m publishing it here for the first time. He is Mad Dog Putin indeed.
