On one side, a ridiculed general staff, an ultimate weapon that is greatly diminished and discredited, troops so demoralized that they fight only with the support of North Korean, Chinese, Ghanaian, Bangladeshi and Iranian mercenaries.
On the other side, a patriotic citizen army, motivated and knowing why it combats—an army that has proved its mastery of the most advanced military technologies, its excellence not only in trench warfare but also in the new remote and ghost warfare.
Ukraine will defeat Russia on the battlefield or impose the terms of a just peace. Either way it will win the war.
As I’ve mentioned, I read CNN, MSNBC, etc everyday. Today CNN had an interesting story on Trump’s disappointment in Justice Barrett. One small paragraph struck me as food for thought:
“Some of Trump’s allies have privately expressed the view that Barrett’s rulings might have been shaped by menacing behavior and threats of violence directed at her family. In March, her sister was targeted with a bomb threat at her home in Charleston, South Carolina, police said. Trump has asked advisers and allies if they think Barrett needs more security, asking if that might make her more comfortable, the sources said. “
Many years ago, we were able to walk through and around Stonehenge, which you can’t do now unless you are a Druid. It is amazing.
This is interesting video, but the “Alter Stone” may or may not have come from Scotland, it is not definite. Even coming from Wales like the Blue Sones is a massive undertaking, and achievement.
We have also been to “New Grange” in Ireland. Another impressive site. Look it up.
The last Ice Age in the US was about 17,000 to 20,000 years ago. Many erratics (rocks from farther north) rode glaciers and were left behind when the ice melted.
Erratics come from glaciers moving across the terrain carrying and pushing rocks and soil with or before them. Hence morraines and so forth,
But you can have “ice” when successive winter snowfalls do not completely thaw before the next one. And it piles up and up and the weight of compression makes the snow into ice, although not the kind you’d put in your drink. But it doesn’t move across the terrain.
I suppose you’d have to posit glaciers coming east from Wales for their stones, and others south from Scotland. I have no idea but is there evidence of such? Other erratics?
I’ve seen suggestions, one supported by a half-finished construction in the Holy Land, that rocks were carved out of the quarries as cylinders and rolled to their location and squared off on site. You don’t need perfect cylinders to have chunks which could be levered along.
A float with an internal, hollowed-out volume of seventeen feet long, two feet wide and one foot high, would have displace about ton of water. I think I got the math right. So the blue stone would need four to float. But since I’m not doing the work, I’ll suggest ten, with a wide frame, to provide stability in rough seas.
So hollow out a tree and then seal the top. It’s not a boat, need not be sea worthy, nor have provisions for sails or steering or even streamlining. When it’s used up, let it dry and bust it up for firewood. There will be little evidence of “boats” or “sea faring”, although something would have to tow it.
A real pain in the butt, but possibly the easiest.
If, in fact, all these megalithic structures are aligned with various celestial phenomena–not to mention the neolithic yard–it means a very long period of record keeping. Which means somebody had to think it was a good idea to start keeping the records, and preserving them against various contingencies until they were sufficiently consistent over sufficient time to convince others. Sounds like fertile ground for a novel.
Good article on the recent tariff ruling, a Pick at powerline today:
My impression (though much less well articulated…) was similar: The court was making stuff up as it went along. Viz, it seemed to be saying that the statutes in question don’t give the president the authority to do EVERYTHING, and Trump seems to be doing everything, so he has to stop. Unfortunately, the court didn’t articulate where to draw the line.
I guess the question is, How can one pin this on Trump..?
(And so…Live and Let DEI?)
Richard,
Not all of the stones as some could have been moved by other means as you point out. I was only talking about the one from the far north. Maybe not moved as far as Stonehenge, but close enough to get help for the rest of the journey. Stonehenge is about 51 degrees north latitude and some glaciers in the US came down to 47 degrees north, 3,000 feet thick over Seattle.
Dave
True as to ice. And New England is full of glacial stuff, maybe known as “till”. Maybe not, But lots of rocks.
Point is did it pile up or come in like a bull dozer. In the latter case, there’d be a lot more crap lying around and getting in the way. Never been there. so I have no idea,
In the event of major trimming on site, there’d be a lot of that spoil around. Haven’t heard anything about that, either.
Neolithic people were as smart as we are, and they had nothing but time. If it was physically possible to do it with the tools available they probably figured out a way.
Niketas has the right of it, I think: these people were every bit as intelligent as “moderns” – they were moderns. Their climate, thanks to the Gulf Stream, etc. (if memory serves), was fairly moderate compared to other areas at the same latitude, and would be further moderated by being on an island, so they had bare survival pretty licked. Specialization was already a thing in (again, if memory serves) all neolithic societies. And they had LOTS of time.
Please take all the following with a grain of salt – I did learn this stuff, but it was in a far country, and besides, the wench is dead.
Glacial erratics – they aren’t generally part of the moraines that more or less define a glacier’s extent, lengthwise and widthwise (which are in fact “bulldozed” up by the ice but also contain small stuff that has been carried along); they’re carried on top of or more often (I think) in the ice, and are left behind – perhaps not quite straight down from their highest location on the ice – as it melts back. They can travel very long distances if the glacier did. In North America, the farthest transport I’m seeing is one erratic from a source over 1200 miles away.
But that depends on ice extent, and it’s been a LONG time since I studied the most recent Ice Ages (and that was mostly in North America, as I studied geology in California). North America was subjected to enormous continental glaciers because it’s a ginormous continent (alpine glaciers originate in mountains, continental glaciers on plain old land, high or low, at high latitudes; an Ice Age is when it snows in high latitudes and doesn’t warm enough in the summer to melt back completely, and eventually the very weight of the ice causes it to flow*). I think the continental glaciers that covered Europe are the same big body of glaciation that covered much of what is now the British Isles, but it was the edge of the glaciation.
Side note: all the areas that were covered by continental glaciers in the last Ice Ages are rebounding now, since the unthinkable weight off the ice is gone. One more reason climate change (which is certainly happening because it’s ALWAYS happening), and the accompanying sea level rise, if that’s the phase we’re in, is not any kind of coastline emergency.
As to the rolling cylinders of stone and then squaring then off at the site, I haven’t heard of spalled-off fragments of the stones in the area, and I think it’s pretty well studied.
*The earth has been entirely ice-free more often than it’s had any ice at all.
As Dave says, large boulders moved hundreds of miles by advancing glaciers are called ‘glacial erratics’. I’ve seen them in the northeast where most of the rock is buried, but the portion above ground is almost 20 ft high – much larger, much heavier than stonehenge’s largest stones. The rock I’m thinking of was, at one time, thought to be the largest single boulder in the world – it’s on Cape Ann.
Thanks to all; great discussion. I have learned a lot here and now am off to search for answers to . . .
Dave,
Not so fast, I live in Michigan. From the center of our Lower Peninsula to the north, the average temp has been under a mile of ice for the last 120k years. But there’s no glacial trash. No moraines, no erratics, no scrapes.
So we had a pile-up ice age. No bull-dozing glaciers. Can happen elsewhere,
Dave, et al. :
Glacial dropstones
hugefloods.com/Lake-Missoula-Dropstones.html
Climatic events aren’t always tranquil. Unicorns have a hard life.
I think a large rockslide fell on the glacier and broke it, so not really the glacier’s fault, so to speak.
@Richard Aubrey:we had a pile-up ice age. No bull-dozing glaciers.
I lived in the Driftless Area for a bit, not super far from Michigan, which was I guess surrounded by glaciers but not under them.
Go to this site posted by om (thank you) above and click on the video link for Ice Age Floods.
hugefloods.com/Lake-Missoula-Dropstones.html
It is 19 minutes discussion of the floods in Central Washington State presented by Nick Zentner, geology professor at Central Washington University. He hosts live discussions three times a week with about a thousand viewers world wide. Drop by if interested and tell him Dave sent you. https://www.nickzentner.com/
And then there’s Mt. Etna….
…seemingly feeling a bit neglected, perhaps even disrespected…
Bernard-Henri Lévy makes a bold prediction in today’s WSJ: Ukraine Will Win This War
https://archive.md/P21i1
As I’ve mentioned, I read CNN, MSNBC, etc everyday. Today CNN had an interesting story on Trump’s disappointment in Justice Barrett. One small paragraph struck me as food for thought:
“Some of Trump’s allies have privately expressed the view that Barrett’s rulings might have been shaped by menacing behavior and threats of violence directed at her family. In March, her sister was targeted with a bomb threat at her home in Charleston, South Carolina, police said. Trump has asked advisers and allies if they think Barrett needs more security, asking if that might make her more comfortable, the sources said. “
Many years ago, we were able to walk through and around Stonehenge, which you can’t do now unless you are a Druid. It is amazing.
This is interesting video, but the “Alter Stone” may or may not have come from Scotland, it is not definite. Even coming from Wales like the Blue Sones is a massive undertaking, and achievement.
We have also been to “New Grange” in Ireland. Another impressive site. Look it up.
The last Ice Age in the US was about 17,000 to 20,000 years ago. Many erratics (rocks from farther north) rode glaciers and were left behind when the ice melted.
Did England have a similar Ice Age?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmBxVfQTuvI
Dave.
Erratics come from glaciers moving across the terrain carrying and pushing rocks and soil with or before them. Hence morraines and so forth,
But you can have “ice” when successive winter snowfalls do not completely thaw before the next one. And it piles up and up and the weight of compression makes the snow into ice, although not the kind you’d put in your drink. But it doesn’t move across the terrain.
I suppose you’d have to posit glaciers coming east from Wales for their stones, and others south from Scotland. I have no idea but is there evidence of such? Other erratics?
I’ve seen suggestions, one supported by a half-finished construction in the Holy Land, that rocks were carved out of the quarries as cylinders and rolled to their location and squared off on site. You don’t need perfect cylinders to have chunks which could be levered along.
A float with an internal, hollowed-out volume of seventeen feet long, two feet wide and one foot high, would have displace about ton of water. I think I got the math right. So the blue stone would need four to float. But since I’m not doing the work, I’ll suggest ten, with a wide frame, to provide stability in rough seas.
So hollow out a tree and then seal the top. It’s not a boat, need not be sea worthy, nor have provisions for sails or steering or even streamlining. When it’s used up, let it dry and bust it up for firewood. There will be little evidence of “boats” or “sea faring”, although something would have to tow it.
A real pain in the butt, but possibly the easiest.
If, in fact, all these megalithic structures are aligned with various celestial phenomena–not to mention the neolithic yard–it means a very long period of record keeping. Which means somebody had to think it was a good idea to start keeping the records, and preserving them against various contingencies until they were sufficiently consistent over sufficient time to convince others. Sounds like fertile ground for a novel.
Good article on the recent tariff ruling, a Pick at powerline today:
https://www.civitasinstitute.org/research/the-court-of-international-trade-issued-a-deeply-flawed-tariff-ruling
My impression (though much less well articulated…) was similar: The court was making stuff up as it went along. Viz, it seemed to be saying that the statutes in question don’t give the president the authority to do EVERYTHING, and Trump seems to be doing everything, so he has to stop. Unfortunately, the court didn’t articulate where to draw the line.
Waiting for the appellate opinion.
See also The Mystery Of Chaco Canyon.
Certain ancients possessed knowledge, capabilities, and a cosmological spirituality that are mysterious today.
BHL?
I’d advise taking anything he suggests with more than a grain of fleur de sel…
From the “2+2=5” File:
Something doesn’t add up….
“Airline Crews Say DEI Persists, Despite Safety Concerns And Trump Orders”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/airline-crews-say-dei-persists-despite-safety-concerns-and-trump-orders
I guess the question is, How can one pin this on Trump..?
(And so…Live and Let DEI?)
Richard,
Not all of the stones as some could have been moved by other means as you point out. I was only talking about the one from the far north. Maybe not moved as far as Stonehenge, but close enough to get help for the rest of the journey. Stonehenge is about 51 degrees north latitude and some glaciers in the US came down to 47 degrees north, 3,000 feet thick over Seattle.
Dave
True as to ice. And New England is full of glacial stuff, maybe known as “till”. Maybe not, But lots of rocks.
Point is did it pile up or come in like a bull dozer. In the latter case, there’d be a lot more crap lying around and getting in the way. Never been there. so I have no idea,
In the event of major trimming on site, there’d be a lot of that spoil around. Haven’t heard anything about that, either.
You’d think I’d know; see “Aubrey Holes”.
Looks like the site of Stonehenge wasn’t under ice in the last glaciation, though glacial drift might have brought stones closer.
Neolithic people were as smart as we are, and they had nothing but time. If it was physically possible to do it with the tools available they probably figured out a way.
Niketas has the right of it, I think: these people were every bit as intelligent as “moderns” – they were moderns. Their climate, thanks to the Gulf Stream, etc. (if memory serves), was fairly moderate compared to other areas at the same latitude, and would be further moderated by being on an island, so they had bare survival pretty licked. Specialization was already a thing in (again, if memory serves) all neolithic societies. And they had LOTS of time.
Please take all the following with a grain of salt – I did learn this stuff, but it was in a far country, and besides, the wench is dead.
Glacial erratics – they aren’t generally part of the moraines that more or less define a glacier’s extent, lengthwise and widthwise (which are in fact “bulldozed” up by the ice but also contain small stuff that has been carried along); they’re carried on top of or more often (I think) in the ice, and are left behind – perhaps not quite straight down from their highest location on the ice – as it melts back. They can travel very long distances if the glacier did. In North America, the farthest transport I’m seeing is one erratic from a source over 1200 miles away.
But that depends on ice extent, and it’s been a LONG time since I studied the most recent Ice Ages (and that was mostly in North America, as I studied geology in California). North America was subjected to enormous continental glaciers because it’s a ginormous continent (alpine glaciers originate in mountains, continental glaciers on plain old land, high or low, at high latitudes; an Ice Age is when it snows in high latitudes and doesn’t warm enough in the summer to melt back completely, and eventually the very weight of the ice causes it to flow*). I think the continental glaciers that covered Europe are the same big body of glaciation that covered much of what is now the British Isles, but it was the edge of the glaciation.
Side note: all the areas that were covered by continental glaciers in the last Ice Ages are rebounding now, since the unthinkable weight off the ice is gone. One more reason climate change (which is certainly happening because it’s ALWAYS happening), and the accompanying sea level rise, if that’s the phase we’re in, is not any kind of coastline emergency.
As to the rolling cylinders of stone and then squaring then off at the site, I haven’t heard of spalled-off fragments of the stones in the area, and I think it’s pretty well studied.
*The earth has been entirely ice-free more often than it’s had any ice at all.
As Dave says, large boulders moved hundreds of miles by advancing glaciers are called ‘glacial erratics’. I’ve seen them in the northeast where most of the rock is buried, but the portion above ground is almost 20 ft high – much larger, much heavier than stonehenge’s largest stones. The rock I’m thinking of was, at one time, thought to be the largest single boulder in the world – it’s on Cape Ann.
Thanks to all; great discussion. I have learned a lot here and now am off to search for answers to . . .
Dave,
Not so fast, I live in Michigan. From the center of our Lower Peninsula to the north, the average temp has been under a mile of ice for the last 120k years. But there’s no glacial trash. No moraines, no erratics, no scrapes.
So we had a pile-up ice age. No bull-dozing glaciers. Can happen elsewhere,
Dave, et al. :
Glacial dropstones
hugefloods.com/Lake-Missoula-Dropstones.html
Climatic events aren’t always tranquil. Unicorns have a hard life.
Speaking of glaciers (or former glaciers)…
“Dramatic Collapse of Swiss Glacier a Chilling Warning, Experts Say”—
https://www.sciencealert.com/dramatic-collapse-of-swiss-glacier-a-chilling-warning-experts-say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YisdT5AJobk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apgrG-O_kEg
I think a large rockslide fell on the glacier and broke it, so not really the glacier’s fault, so to speak.
@Richard Aubrey:we had a pile-up ice age. No bull-dozing glaciers.
I lived in the Driftless Area for a bit, not super far from Michigan, which was I guess surrounded by glaciers but not under them.
Go to this site posted by om (thank you) above and click on the video link for Ice Age Floods.
hugefloods.com/Lake-Missoula-Dropstones.html
It is 19 minutes discussion of the floods in Central Washington State presented by Nick Zentner, geology professor at Central Washington University. He hosts live discussions three times a week with about a thousand viewers world wide. Drop by if interested and tell him Dave sent you.
https://www.nickzentner.com/
And then there’s Mt. Etna….
…seemingly feeling a bit neglected, perhaps even disrespected…
…in these “out-of-joint” times…
Rescission decision in progress…
“…OMB Sends Rescission Package to Congress, Billions Cut”—
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/06/03/new-omb-sends-rescission-package-to-congress-billions-cut-n2189997
– – – – – – –
And from the jam-packed “They (Mostly) Don’t Vote For Us Anyway” File (cf. Hurricane Helene FEMA support for North Carolina)…
“Biden Admin Emails Acknowledged Cancer Risks From East Palestine Toxic Train Derailment(
“Whistleblowers criticized the Biden administration for prematurely declaring the area safe and called for comprehensive health monitoring.”—
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/06/biden-admin-emails-acknowledged-cancer-risks-from-east-palestine-toxic-train-derailment/
Mental Health awareness – poll shows conservatives have better mental health than liberals.. Reason why is clear – Video
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/06/mental-health-awareness-poll-shows.html