Ukraine Starting Over

Crimea, it is more than a tactically favorable  place in the world,  it is some really ancient , pivotal historical stuff they got there. Who knows what powerful artifacts are entombed in the mountains and the depths of the Black Sea? Mostly it is about the positioning of the Crimean territory.  All the gas routes, shipping, air transport corridors. As well as  the potential for ultra high end real estate development ... Russia could not have done a better job of driving Ukraine into the arms of the NATO alliance. Ukraine will hopefully regain it's seized territory and eventually become a part of NATO, it's virtually a done deal. There was an opportunity for dialog early on, but that was lost well before the disruptions upon the Donbas began. Often,  I have noticed how travel weary Ukraine's leadership is when they arrive in Washington for meetings, for them it's probably a super long day, getting to the airport at 7 or 8 in the morning, long ten to fi

I have been Looking for Heroic people out here in the digital wilderness, praying that some random shooting star doesn't come thundering down and cause this entire canyon wall to collapse on this narrow, lonesome trail , filled with scorpions, rattlesnakes , cougars and plenty of birds of prey. For the Moment, our under appreciated Hero is Dennis Rodman , he's terribly concerned about things and actually, he is the official back channel to the DPRK, and of course something more than that, he's got the real "Wild , Wild East " Persona... It is all much stranger than fiction nowadays People gave Dennis a hard time for being weird but he really cares about people, and he loves his narrative . I am simply waiting for the chance to get one on one with him and show off my 3 point fade away sky hook shot ! Seems like a storm cloud forming in the East and if this narrow trail gets hit by hail , we'd all get caught in the freezing floodwaters of Nuclear Winter