Schrödinger’s War – And Orwell’s

Thomas Cole The Course of Empire – The Arcadian or Pastoral State 1834

Raul Ilargi Meijer has a post on The Automatic Earth about the way the war in Ukraine is being reported. It's pretty entertaining and if he happens to agree with me, well, that's just a coincidence. He includes this quote about the recent dam destruction:

The best comment on Kakhovka I’ve seen perhaps comes from @CheburekiMan on Twitter: “Restoring water flow to the North Crimean Canal was top priority for Russia, the very first act of the SMO [Special Military Operation]. Before Kiev shut off the flow in 2014, the canal was supplying 85% of Crimea’s water. So much depended on it, from crops to industry to drinking water, that’s how important it is. Now the pro-Ukraine bleating sheep want people to believe that Russia would wreck the dam, empty the reservoir and cause serious harm to its own people by running the canal dry. It’s so bonkers that one has to seriously consider such ideas are the result of brain damage, or perhaps fetal alcohol syndrome.”

He also notes that Jacinda Ardern, a former Prime Minister of New Zealand, was made a dame. I'm not sure what to make of that. I seem to recall that New Zealand went off the deep end with COVID and gun control, but that's New Zealand, they're a tiny country in the middle of the ocean on the far side of the world. I'm not going to try and figure that out. 

Via Zerohedge