Tag Archives: Mark Milley

Diary Blog, 24 July 2023

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[“At the end stands Victory“]

Battles past

From the newspapers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12329761/Its-magnet-public-school-pupils-blowing-steam-summer-one-beach-rangers-charged-policing-Polzeath-reveals-year-descended-orgy-drugs-vandalism-underage-sex.html.

Looks like the North Cornwall beaches are now very different from when my family camped at Treyarnon in, if I recall, 1965. I would have been about 8 years old. Denis Healey also used to camp there with his wife and children in those days, though I do not believe I ever saw him. Imagine a Cabinet minister (he was Secretary of State for Defence) doing that now!

When I later (2002-2004) lived not so far away (having leased one of the largest country houses in Cornwall, about 4 miles north of Launceston), we only rarely visited the not-far-away North Cornwall beaches, and only in the colder months, when most are deserted.

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Most of Africa was once under European control, and was better for it. All of Africa should be under European control.

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Terrible. It will not always be like that, though.

Stalingrad, largely razed in 1942, recovered, was renamed Volgograd (1961) and is today a thriving city (as are the Japanese cities devastated in WW2— Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki etc): see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volgograd

[Stalingrad, early 1943]
[Duma of the Stalingrad Oblast, centre of regional government, in a recent year]
[panorama of Volgograd, contemporary]
[Lenin Square metro station, Volgograd]
[museum of Battle of Stalingrad—ruins of destroyed factory and nearby famous statue-group, with 1940s truck, all as they are today]
[Volgograd— Central Embankment on the Volga]
[Volgograd— trolleybus]

The lesson? That life does, eventually, go on…

These are the people who sit in Whitehall and the Pentagon, and think that they could defeat Russia in three days, and cost-free.

The police, HMRC, and charity regulators really should be looking seriously into “Jack Monroe”.

As of today, 397 utter mugs are still sending her money every month, totalling thousands of pounds each month.

[Greta Nut]

I have to admit, I rather like that blondinka. Hard-core.

Ha ha! Stupid loonie; totally brainwashed. She may be right though, in thinking (feeling) that she has no future…(I daresay that her —probably— affluent parents will bail her out, both literally and metaphorically).

“Jack Monroe” has pulled the old “suicide” trick quite a few times, and it always seems to co-incide with occasions when there is much scrutiny of her obvious “grifting” and outright fraud. The depressing thing is that many mugs fall for it every single time.

Odessa, not “Odesa”…

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[Red Army tank, Sevastopol, Crimea, 1944]

Diary Blog, 5 May 2023

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[Warwick Castle]

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I heard that idiot on the car radio this morning, on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme. Dishonest deflecting but which was not even intelligent deflection. A characterless drone. Just looked him up on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Hands. Background suspiciously cosmopolitan.

https://twitter.com/Spriter99880/status/1654422033483046914?s=20

This happened also in the First World War— Russian generals and others all conspiring against, and fighting, each other. In the Second World War it did not happen, because Stalin kept a very firm control over the Stavka, the armed forces generally, and the intelligence services, and everyone, from high to low, was —with reason— afraid of his wrath.

If that is not tough talk, what would be?

Zelensky may be as much of a figurehead or even puppet than he is a leader as such, but he now is the face of the Kiev regime. If Russia can eliminate him, take him off the board, that is as good, or would be, as destroying a whole army. Zelensky is the lynch-pin of this situation. He is the one arranging for shipments of free armament, ammunition, other supplies and, crucially, actual money from the West, in huge amounts.

Senseless, but what more does one expect from the sort of boneheaded generals usual in the US Army? I have to admit, he looks better on paper: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Milley#Early_life_and_education.

Polemical and a little one-sided, but he has a point…

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Interesting thread; worth reading. I seem to remember seeing that photo as a child, in a Life magazine book about Italy, published sometime in the late 1950s.

As so often, the camera does not tell the whole truth.

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The always-stunning Sadie Marquardt. Pity about the noisy American audience, though.