It is Monday morning, and the dogs are all barking as my oldest daughter comes upstairs with her dog… her dog is the only one not caught up in the canine cacophony.
Right now, one of the WNBA’s most visible stars is being held in Russia on drug charges. Britney Griner is everything Putin hates – she’s tall, black, and gay. The claim is that they found her with vape cartridges containing hashish oil.
If she had been caught with anabolic steroids or some other performance-enhancing drug, she would just be another athlete in Russia. (Sarcasm)
I don’t know if the charges are trumped up or not, but as frequently as WNBA players have traversed back and forth from Russia to play in the women’s professional leagues there, they ought to know the rules. That said, I wonder how long it will be before we see Ms Griner back in the states. It might be years. It might not be ever.
I was reading a couple of things this morning, and these days you have no idea what is truthful and verifiable when it’s coming from Russia and Ukraine. I really hope the news items I see coming from Ukraine are right on, and not some fake attempt to manipulate my emotions one way or the other, and my confirmation bias wants to believe the Ukrainian posts – I have that much situational awareness, at least. One story I read this morning was about a woman and her two children, ages 12 and 2, getting killed while waiting for evacuation. Apparently, the evacuation point locations are being announced, and the Russians are shelling the evacuation points. That’s just pure evil.
I came across another interesting post by a gentleman named Igor Sushko (@igorsushko). The content he pointed to is an assessment by a Russian FSB officer about the Russian plan to invade Ukraine and depose the Ukrainian president, then replace him with puppet leadership. The content of the post can be found here. If this is real, the Russians know they have much bigger problems now that their blitzkrieg attack on Ukraine has been thwarted. If you read this post from Igor, keep in mind that there is little we can do to verify or refute the content, but it sure reads like an accurate assessment – but then, the best pieces of disinformation always do.
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I hope the world is treating you better than you deserve.
Except you, Vladimir Putin. I hope you get EXACTLY what you deserve.
Peace y’all.
