Tucker Carlson, Russia’s Advocate on Fox

Tucker continued his strange defense of Russia tonight.  He is aghast that we would impose economic sanctions on a “sovereign country,” i.e., Putin’s Russia.  This, even though that “sovereign country” is invading another sovereign country in a war of conquest and killing people and committing war crimes.  

Tucker is also upset that we have now put sanctions on Russian oil. He’s wrong about that. Those sanctions are necessary but should be offset with a great increase in American oil production to replace Russian oil in the market place.  

Unfortunately no good solution is possible as long as the crazy Democrats control both Congress and the White House.  Somehow we must struggle through until we can change the situation. 

Tucker Carlson Blows It

I generally like Tucker Carlson and agree with him, but last night was different.  When discussing the Russian invasion of Ukraine he really lost credibility with me.  He seemed silly and frivolous and unserious.

Basically, Tucker believes we should do nothing to help the Ukrainians survive Russia’s naked aggression.  Why not?  Because Ukraine “is not our ally” and their fate  has no impact on whether a plumber can afford a vacation in 2022.  Or something like that.

Tucker was at his worst when he made fun of Nancy Pelosi’s calling the Ukraine “Russia’s Sudetenland.”  It was a “Nazi reference,” and that made Tucker laugh hysterically.  But Pelosi’s comparison was spot on.  Both regions were previously owned or controlled by the aggressors who believed they had a right to repossess them.

Last night Tucker acted like a jackass and lost some credibility because of it.  We should do everything within reason to help the Ukrainians even if  it means plumbers have to postpone their planned trips to Yellowstone.  It is the humanitarian thing to do, and Putin is not likely to stop with Ukraine if his aggression is allowed to succeed.  

Troubling Times

It is very distressing watching the evil tyrant, Vladimir Putin of Russia, invading the Ukraine, bombing and bombarding civilians and infrastructure and committing war crimes.  This kind of aggression has not been seen in many years.  The Ukrainians continue fighting and bravely resisting the World’s latest conquest minded thug. We can only hope the Ukrainians can continue to survive.

Biden gave a State of the Union address this week, and sitting behind him was airhead Kamala Harris and slippy dentures Nancy Pelosi, the latter who had a stupid and fake smile to express her joy at having an inept moron as president.  Every time Biden made some irrelevant point, the two women would stand up and applaud in transparent political theater.

What can be done to stop Putin’s aggression?  I wish we knew.

Putin’s Tyranny

Russia has invaded the Ukraine, in a wanton act of pure tyranny and aggression.  Just like in the 1930s, bad actors seek the control and dominion of other nations for purely selfish reasons.  They want what others have and mean to take it by force.  

Putin, the leader of Russia, will go down in history as just another thuggish dictator like Hitler, Stalin, Napoleon and Abraham Lincoln.  There is a nasty impulse in people that makes them want absolute control of others, and they are adamant that their desires are sacrosanct and holy.  This lust for power is the ugliest of human impulses and how to control and contain it is a perpetual problem of those who seek liberty.  

Bury Vladimir Lenin and Do It Now!!

Donald Douglas at American Power had an interesting post yesterday.  It seems a majority of Russians would prefer to remove Lenin's corpse from his mausoleum in Red Square and bury it.

Vladimir did the world a favor when he kicked the bucket back in 1924, where no doubt he descended to the netherworld where he was greeted by the millions he had executed or starved during his reign as Communist dictator.  Hopefully, they tore him apart bit by bit before casting his soul into Hell.

Whither his soul notwithstanding, Lenin's corpse stayed in Russia where it was gutted and embalmed and placed on permanent display in a stone mausoleum in Red Square, where it remains to this day, no pun intended.

Intrigued by the macabre story, I searched the internet and learned these facts:
1.  The body in the mausoleum is indeed that of Vladimir Lenin.  It has been 87 years since the old Red died, and his corpse is still remarkably preserved.
2.  Every 18 months the body is stripped naked and bathed for 30 days or so in a preserving solution of formaldehyde, methanol, ethanol and other chemicals.
3.  The body is a bit green after 87 years, but is made to look lifelike with filtered lighting.
4.  The history of the preservation efforts is a story in itself and quite interesting.  Read it here.

See photos of Lenin's naked corpse taking a bath here.

Note:  Lenin apologists like to say that Lenin wasn't a murderer, that the mass murders occurred after his regime.  According to one website, This is one of the greatest lies in history:

 Lenin and Trotsky killed 4 million people - men, women and children - by mass executions, death camps, and state-caused famine.