The klepto-nepotistic regime of Volodymyr Zelensky is circling the toilet bowl as yet another corruption scandal soils his good name and tarnishes Ukraine’s reputation for fighting on behalf of all Europeans for democratic values. The aptly named Operation Midas has brought to light an immense extortion racket worth 100 million dollars. Published photos show the […]
News from the small German town of Herdecke this past week has sent cognitive dissonances into overdrive after jousting reports finally settled on what many had dreaded. The stabbing of newly elected mayor Iris Stalzer was perpetrated by her own children (daughter, 17 and son, 15), who were adopted from Mali and Haiti respectively. In […]
The on-again off-again meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin is set to take place in Alaska this Friday. This formerly Russian possession is a most symbolic setting if indeed territorial exchanges are to be discussed. The form guide, however, suggests that it will be mostly a publicity stunt — a summit of mutually unrealistic […]
An English couple, an American couple and a Ukrainian couple were dining in a high-end restaurant. The Englishman asks his wife: “Could you pass me the honey, honey?” A little later, the American asks his wife: “Could you pass me the sugar, sugar?” Upon seeing this, the Ukrainian says to his wife: “Pass me the […]
See also: What race(s) are Ukrainians? — From tall timbers to the Pontic Steppe When Soviet Russia and Finland agreed to properly define their border in 1920, so the story goes, an old man whose remote cabin sat squarely on the proposed line of demarcation was asked which country he’d rather be a part of. […]
A recent talking point on the lips of several figures of the right (Steve Bannon, JD Vance, Tucker Carlson) is that the war in Ukraine is a fratricidal conflict between two Slavic peoples, and that the United States should play no part in it. Though I don’t know if such rhetoric is politically incorrect apathy […]
In the dying embers of the Biden presidency, the laws of entropy seem to be channeling all of the energy toward the incoming administration. Trump has already promised a flurry of up to 100 executive orders on day 1, but some heat is still emanating from the not-so-friendly fire between the two factions of the […]
