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The Question Nobody is Asking About the War in Ukraine

Posted: September 28, 2026 by datechguy in in Ukraine, media, Uncategorized, war
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It doesn’t matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are. If it doesn’t agree with experiment, it’s wrong.

Richard Feynman

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for a long time you will know that Russia’s War in Ukraine took an unexpected turn over the last year and a half.

Ukrainian drones have hit deep into Russia wreaking havoc economically and causing hardship inside Russia proper and effecting Russians in the Crimea to the point where people who moved there are leaving.

All of this puts the elderly Putin in a bad spot because if you’re an absolute ruler (no matter what “elections” take place) you can’t seem weak. Ukraine is a big piece of the old Russian empire (It belonged to Russia for centuries) and rebuilding it has been a dream of his since the old Soviet Union broke up and frankly it’s a dream that a lot of Russians likely share.

The drone attacks have been a great morale boost as well for the Ukrainians & have encouraged them to avoid a deal that has any concessions in it. I can certainly see their point, but today a question hit me that I had not considered.

During the American Civil War Rebel raiders on land (Nathan Bedford Forest) and at sea (The CSS Alabama & Shenandoah etc) did tremendous economic damage to the Union forces and grabbed headlines all over the world. They were the talk of every schoolboy & editors devoted column after column to them. William Tecumseh Sherman himself said that Forest needed to be caught if it bankrupted the country.

But for all their success and fame neither the raiders like Forest on land nor the various raiders at sea could stop the relentless advance of the Union Army which still had every advantage over the South.

And that leads to my question, the only one that matters:

Has Ukraine’s drone warfare caused the Russians to retreat from and/or abandon positions within Ukraine they once held?

I suspect the answer is “no” because if it was “yes” we’d be hearing about it.

The Ukrainians are rightly proud of their use of drone warfare and the effect it’s had on Putin’s Russia but in all the coverage I’ve not seen any stories about the Russian forces retreating or even losing ground.

That’s the bottom line is that if it doesn’t cause the Russians to lose ground it adds up to an annoyance & an annoyance will not be enough to stop Putin no matter how big it is.

I suspect that both countries are on their last legs and would love to end the war, but neither is willing to lose face as Putin would by not acquiring any territory and as Ukraine would by ceding any.

Cutting that Gordon knot is the key to ending the war in the short term.

In the long term however it’s going to be about Russia giving up plans to rebuild their empire and who comes after Putin but that a problem for another day.

Today’s Book Quote: Putting “Good Morning America’s” Spin in perspective 18 from Fitchburg vs 18 from the entire US

Posted: September 3, 2026 by datechguy in Blame Trump, media, Today's Book Quote, war
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One of the disadvantages of going to my favorite breakfast place locally is having “Good Morning America” on in the background with it’s constant spin. Today’s spin was trying to declare the Iran war a disaster &to overestimate the power of Iran vs our own.

This is quite understandable when you consider that an American victory before the election is the last thing that media wants. If the choice is between our defeat & Iran getting the bomb or the Trump administration having a GOP congress for their final two years they will choose our defeat every single time because Orange Man Bad.

Ironically as I was hearing this spin I was, as I do when I go to breakfast alone reading a volume I didn’t know existed a few weeks ago. As the spin was going on to my right I read the following lines:

Of the eight hundred (more or less,) of Fitchburg [MA] who have served in the army at different times during the war, one hundred forty-two, or upwards of one in six, have fallen by the bullet or by disease contracted in the service.[emphasis mine]

Fitchburg in the War of the Rebellion Henry A Willis 1866 P 148.

I would like to note that at the time of the Civil War or as Mr. Lewis calls it: “The War of the Rebellion” Fitchburg Mass was still a town with town meetings and such and would not become a city for another decade.

The civil war lasted four years and if you take those 142 deaths and divide by four you get 35.5 a year, half that and you have 17.25 every six months.

Think about that math for a second.

During the civil war the town of Fitchburg Massachusetts averaged the loss of just over 17 men every six months.

In the six months that we’ve been fighting the Iran war the entire United States Military has lost 18 servicemen and women.

Yet today’s media declares this war a failure, that a nation of 360 million people is reaching the breaking point due to 18 dead in six months barely over one death for every three states.

I suspect the townsfolk of 1860’s Fitchburg whose young men died would be shocked by the conclusion of the media & even more shock that they’re on the other side.

I close with the following screenshot from a question I asked as I was finishing this post:

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Maybe it’s just me but if we were losing this war I would think that the number of servicemen Iran managed to kill in six month might just be over the amount of people who accidently drown in the US every two days.

But that’s just me.

UPDATE: Here is a more damming figure for the “Iran is winning” narrative:

So let’s put this is perspective.

225 US service men & woman die annually in accidents.

18 US service men & woman have died in 6 months of war with Iran.

That means that the number of deaths that Iran has inflicted on our service personal in six months of war is about 16% of the number of service men and women who die accidently.

I’m sorry if that’s winning a war I’d hate to see what losing is.

Five Quick: 0-3 Trying to Kill Trump Thoughts Under the Fedora: Methinks the Left Objects too much, Who Moi?, Trump Now 2nd on the All Time List, Don’t know much about the “Teacher of the Month” from CA, A class closing act

Posted: April 26, 2026 by datechguy in Always look at the bright side of Trump, media, Uncomfortable Truths, under the fedora
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I was in a middle of a full screen game when DaWife told me about the attempt to kill Trump and when I checked my feed on the subject the first things I saw was the left either

  1. Claiming Trump had faked this
  2. Objecting to the right being blaming them for trying to kill him a 3rd time

I’m sorry but if you want people to not think these things perhaps go lighter on the whole “Trump is Hitler” thing, but in fairness given what we’re seeing these days in Maine if Trump WAS Hitler the left would likely support him.

Speaking of what we’ve been seeing

Here is the right response from someone who doesn’t like Trump

The summit of this nonsense was this:

Although the best answer was of course this:

Let’s go to the video

Grok’s Pointed gun standard which doesn’t count Palm Springs not withstanding this puts Trump two behind Lincoln for 2nd place on the attempted assassinations all time for Presidents.

It would be nice if he doesn’t get a chance to break the record but given the left being the left and that we’re not even half way into this 2nd term I think he might do so

Of course in fairness the idea that at an event full of people who would privately cheer him being killed someone would try to do so isn’t all that odd. BTW can you imagine if the assassin succeeded yesterday how difficult it would have been for the assembled press to feign public outrage with all those camera running?

It was interesting enough to see the general silence since the attempt took place with them there and nobody had a chance to establish the left’s desired narrative nor feed it to those in attendance.

We don’t know much about the teacher of the month who has been arrested except that:

  • He’s fast
  • He shot a Secret Service agent who fortunately had body armor
  • He managed not to be shot and killed, how I haven’t figured out
  • If this guy was “Teacher of the Month” it’s more proof you need your kids out of public school

Given the use of AI these days I’m going to be a bit more careful about what gets spread today about him as the technology to manufacture a narrative has exploded but I must say I think this take is pretty good:

.Already we are seeing people trying to say he’s Mossad or that it’s all about an excuse to start shooting in Iran again (he doesn’t need an excuse btw Actually it would be more legit if he was an Iranian agent instead of just the avg loony lefty, after all we’re fighting a war against them and in war the other side gets to shoot back.), but we can expect everything from gay fanboy of Tucker Carlson trying to impress him to fanatical Catholic upset at the clash with the Pope.

No matter how wacked some narratives are there are fools online who will buy them if it fits their worldview.

The trial will be interesting but I alas think Van Jones is right about one thing:

“I’m starting to worry about something, though, which is that the shooter survived, which means on Monday he’s going to court, which means there is a danger that people try to make him some sort of hero. You watch what happened with Luigi [Mangione], who shot a CEO to death and somehow became a hero. So, they said tonight you saw the worst of America. You saw the best of America. Tonight, you definitely saw the best of America. I hope on Monday we don’t see the worst again. 

The chances of this not happening are so zero.

Finally Trump’s press conference was both informative and gracious you can watch it here:

This was likely the best dressed news conference in the history of Presidential press conferences.

Could you imagine giving such a press conference less than an hour after someone tried to kill you? This guy has ice in his veins.

The security for the new event in 30 days should be interesting.

I’ll close with a quote from Stonewall Jackson:

He who does not see the hand of God in this is blind, sir. Blind!

Minnesota Shooting: Five Thoughts Under the Fedora: Leftists Crying in public rejoicing in private, Useful idiot Becomes even more Useful dead, One of Two “That Could Have Been Me” reactions, Evidence smemidence Narrative Uber Alles! and Bad Narcissistic Parenting

Posted: January 8, 2026 by datechguy in immigration, media, politics
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Well the moment that the left has been waiting for and working hard to achieve has finally come.

Lefty pols, lefty press and lefty activists have been doing all they can to produce a dead body that they can decide to lay at the feet of Trump and ICE and now that has come to pass. Several thoughts:

  1. Do not think for one moment that the pols the activists and the press are sad about this woman’s death. I submit and suggest they are absolutely delighted. This has been their goal for almost a year and they’ve done all they can to produce it. While they might have preferred a person of color to be the body in order to cry “racism” the fact that this is a white lesbian woman with children will fill the bill in other ways for them. While publicly they will wail and gnash their teeth I assure you privately they are overjoyed, particularly at the prospect of taking Minnesota fraud out of the news loop.
  2. I feel bad for the dead woman in question and her family. Not because her actions didn’t warrant getting shot, trying to run over a federal agent is a fine way to get yourself killed but while it’s possible that she was all in on the “ICE is the Gestapo” business based on reporting she was persuaded to come down and her lawfully married spouse who was busy was busy blaming herself for making her come down there. Now her dead body and her family are going to be exploited again by the left and used as a prop. You’ll see tearful pols and angry leftists screaming bloody murder and talking fondly of the dead as a brave warrior for freedom when she was in fact a useful idiot who is more useful now that she’s dead than alive.
  3. This will have one of two effects on the rest of the useful idiots out there being paid to harass ICE who should at this point realize: “Oh my God this could have been me!”. I suspect given the idiocy of the left we will get a lot more of the 2nd than the first.
    • What the hell am I doing out here risking getting killed? The money isn’t worth it, I’m being used!
    • This lady will be remembered as a “hero” If it happens to me my life will have meaning and purpose at last!
  4. The fact that there is plenty of video evidence that this woman refused to leave her car when ordered and was trying to run down the Ice agent (whether due to panic or malice) will be immaterial to either the leftist pols or the leftist media or anyone else. Their narrative is out there and no actual physical evidence will matter. Tim Waltz particular is going to go all in as the topic is no longer him or the scandals in the state and even better for the left the President’s success in Venezuela and vs Russia and the revolt in Iran, all of them stories they do NOT want to cover, can be pushed to the back burner. Reality doesn’t matter to these people, just the narrative and now they have their narrative and they’ll push it through as many news cycles as they can, oh and don’t think for one moment that those involved in the fraud will use this distraction caused by this to destroy records etc that will hurt their cause.
  5. Finally Consider this from a non-political angle. You’re a woman with young children, what the HELL are you doing harassing federal agent during the day and taking this kind of risk? What kind of example are you setting? With your spouse filming are you really more interested in getting a viral moment than being a mother to your children? What parent sets this kind of example, and if she was pressured by her spouse what parent doesn’t resist such pressure for the sake of her kids? It reminds me of the transgender craze where mothers are spaying their own kids for status. It’s bad parenting, it’s narcissism and her kids are going to pay the price for the rest of their lives.
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