Ukraine Starting Over

  Attached is a photo of mine, fresh off the airplane, mid December, 2013. I actually had no idea a total revolutionary process was underway there, I just stumbled into it It is hard to say if the taint of Western Vulture Capitalism will swoop quietly in to enable Russian Bond payments, for the sake of richer spoils on the back end of the war in Ukraine. It could be a bad bet, a Karmically bad good bet. I sure would not want to be a part of saving the Russian elite's bacon for a paltry 20 or even 50% potential profit. The war making in Ukraine is being horrendously executed by the war making forces of Russia , and it's only likely going to get worse. I actually know most of these recent news making places, for in my earliest times exploring Ukraine, I went to the Eastern part. It was only in the latter days of exploring Ukraine that I checked out a bit of the Western part. I know Odessa, Dnipro, Zapporizhia, Melitopol, Simferopol , Sevastopol, Alushta, even Saki (slightly Famou...

  So where in all this vast morass of news is Nadia Savchenko ? she is discredited, discarded, ignored by the media after the artificial  kerfuffle that she wanted to destroyUkraine's parliament, let free on some technicalities . How does a woman who served in Iraq, saw that war from the inside out, has seen the unfolding of Ukraine's multiple crises scenarios. Been held prisoner on the belly of the beast, been personally pardoned by Mister Putin, flown back to Ukraine on the Presidential airplane, then served in Ukraine parliament , then been arrested under suspicion of plans to blow up that body, which she said was allegorical. One has to keep in mind that she went into occupied Donbas, DPR,LPR areas to meet with Ukraine prisoners of war. I mean, who would actually do that after what she went through in Russian imprisonment? I don't see that she posts, has a blog, telegram channel (not that I know anything about telegram) I just feel that the media has missed another chan...

  I have to admit the fact, that the entire Peace and Prosperity plan that I was working out for Ukraine in my crazy mind for some time =, it  is totally shattered. A  truly complete  reconstruction of that plan would be required at this point in time. It is still fictionally possible for everybody to pretty much make pretty  good money,  if the variant  factual, contextual differences can be set aside, but this plan cannot get reworked in 24 hours by myself working totally alone unfortunately. I need backup . and my team in Ukraine has taken losses. I don't have much real news. But a song that hit me today by the music group " First Aid Kit"  the song "Rebel Heart"  the words seemed so hard and true about the situation. The question that I have,  is which way does this narrative convey itself within the conflict? And how does Ukraine attempt to start itself over from this point in time? https://youtu.be/0HBzCbnFMmg One thing I learned ...

this is a photo of a church outside Dnipro  Ukraine, it is a Christian Church built entirely from wood in maybe the 1600's, because I have been there, walked with that friend to the rear of that Church , seen the interiors, I think that for sure this hand hewn carpentry work is certainly from the 1700's''The thing that is pretty crazy about the military standoff in Ukraine/ on the borders of Belarus, Russia , is that both sides are basically Right wing Christian fanatics, there is not any difference of ideology, the differences relate to interpretations of History, and this is why the heart of the battle for the future of Ukraine and Russia it's about information warfare, the outcome of that, coupled with economic sanctions, social aspersions about what is cool/ not cool. These seemingly abstract places in reality exist, with numerous historical anecdotes about those places, some gapped, some bad. One has to walk the land, have your feet make the phone call to under...

  Hey Folks, those few infrequent readers of my Blog, the last time that I checked MIG jets haven't been scrambled to intercept my International flights, mostly because  I haven't recently taken International flights, particularly over Russia / Belarus airspace. I am trying to remember how I got out of Belarus after my 2017 visit, I think that it was by bus. Most Americans cannot begin to appreciate the complexity of obtaining a Belarus travel Visa. Even back then, one really had to want to go there, I went there to visit a friend and visit the grave of a deceased journalist friend, Pavel Sheremet who was killed in a car bombing in Kyiv, Ukraine in July of 2016.  For one thing , just the application for a visa from the Belarus consulate in Kyiv is complex, complex paperwork , a relatively big amount of money, disclosures about one's military/ civilian status, purpose of the visit, etc. And the Belarus Consulate itself is truly daunting, the attendant waits behind a very t...

  One would have to be a novice, or a plebeian to not be aware of Israel's deep connections to Ukraine. In the midst of this vast media pumped geopolitical/ existential crisis.  . Israeli business interests fund construction of buildings, apartments, shopping centers in Ukraine, Israeli business interests are heavily integrated into Ukraine's economy. Of course Israeli business interests have no desire for a destructive conflict to advance outside of the Donbas (where they have already written off their losses ) I know this from first hand experience myself, that Israel sent Military doctors to Ukraine to treat the wounded in 2014, 2015, 2016 . It was an intentionally cloaked operation, or maybe not even an operation per se, but just a direct action by a few individuals. Setting all the details for the historians to dissect aside, what is real, relevant today about Israel/ Ukraine? I can only guess myself, without the vaguest shred of information or evidence of any sort, whats...

  Hello, Heavy New Beers to my few followers on the blog Who would have thought that this dumpy little Russian Naval base would become the "Sum of All Fears" in 2013/ 2022 ?  I didn't, certainly not. I actually went to the  National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos Херсонес Таврический on New Year's day, 2014 in Sevastopol Crimea (and actually I didn't pay admission, there wasn't an attendant at the gate. That fact alone could land me a 20 year prison sentence in Siberia, but maybe I can sew clothes with Navalny or something like that... A lot of News about Ukraine lately, Ukraine getting into high alert due to news of imminent invasion, problem for Ukraine visa vis Russia its that it's such a vast border. Now that invasion threat includes Belarus. Honestly, any reasonably educated, 12 years older youth could explain that Ukraine's National defense is much more easy if Belarus, as an invasion platform is simply neutralized, at least somewhat, but that st...

 what all people who share what is in common, than what sets us apart. We all want safety, security, opportunity and a semblance of a healthy life style. I am perhaps an outlier, I made many random , apparently non advantageous visits to Ukraine, had bad situations incur upon myself , yet also had amazing, stupendous situations unravel that outweighed the disadvantageous situations. Many losses and few wins, yet the situations that seemed inadvertent became a sub narrative that was irreplaceable. Nadia Savchenko relating her personal experience perspective about Ukraine's participation in Iraq amongst the "Coalition of the Willing" And herself as a soldier of a Nation that surrendered the world's third largest Nuclear Arsenal in History , and she asked me who I was, an American who speaks basic Russian in Ukraine and who doesn't speak basic Ukrainian much at all. I am just me. I have , had been to Crimea, have, had been to Donetsk , Zaporizhia, Eastern Ukraine, Dn...

Everyone knows that the CIA with-held evidence in the Russia Probe, most likely to protect sources   There has been some speculation that Russian Military buildups would result in an attempt to take a land bridge to Crimea and potentially that includes opening the Crimea Irrigation  canal. Yet such a move would stop Nordstream 2 and result in potentially worse economic and political ramifications for the Russian Leadership. It would be an ugly bloody battle. Possibly involving a feint breakout move towards Kharkiv that looks half serious as a  distraction, and then a blitz from the South , as there really aren't very substantial defensive elements between Crimea and Berdiansk, it's mostly flat and level with no fast roads to get there from Central Ukraine. Make no mistake my fellow American friends , readers that the Crimea annexation, green Men Invasion involved years of planning. The possibility of Russian forces taking control of Crimea by force inflamed debates i...

I guess that we are talking about 1100 years ago or more. There were Kings in Ukraine, wise kings, kind kings and queens, persons that could see into the future and the past. I won't comment much on the contemporary USA's official State Department position on things. Ukraine has always, and often faced adversity, logistical challenges. In many ways , honestly, I am envious. I wish that I had been born, or raised in Ukraine, gone through their educational system, for all it's flaws, demerits, sketchy scenarios for being a student in University, High School, for decades they taught something that we in the West did not get, it was social unity through covalent bonding of like and disparate individualities. Their education syste was a very strong format. Albeit that it was often based upon the most dominant personalities creating a social hierarchy. Yet I envy the very obvious contiguousness of their educational process. I am perhaps a victim of my own individualistic approa...

\The news we get is only a vague mirror of reality, the virus shutdown only adds further limits to journalists getting out there and generating real and truly in depth stories that match facts.\ One facet of human Nature that I have little patience for tolerating, is when people lunge to a conclusion without the scantest basis of real evidence. The News is only a window, not a door. Chasing what is now mostly gone, maybe it is the ideals of the Euro-Maidan event. There was a sense of both spiritual and political Egalitarianism. It didn't matter if you were pretty far Right or pretty far Left, everybody connected in the middle that the situation simply was not good, it was actually absurd in every way. Tax Collection amounted to taking from everyone and giving to the elites, the politically connected apparatchiks of the "Party of Regions" It was the biggest, saddest joke ever imposed upon Ukraine. It (Euro-Maidan) was a rough and pretty inexplicable affair, authenti...