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Open thread 5/31/2025 — 33 Comments

  1. It was the merry lads who did it. I swear. Those guys. Over there. Theg were just playing. Y’know — upon the greeny grass.

    Fa-la-la-la-la, Fa-la-la-la-la-la Fa-la-la Fa-la.

  2. Spent it in Serbia. Went way to fast. Had a wonderful time and didn’t want to leave.

  3. I always scoffed at the saying that the older you get the faster time flies. I don’t scoff at that anymore.

  4. This video is about ten years old. Probably more than a hundred US Marines singing the song ” These are the Days of Elijah” at what was probably a chapel service. I wonder how the part of ” out of Zion’s hill Salvation comes ” ? would go over in some places now? Or the part they really get into where the song says over and over ” There’s no God like Jehovah.”? You Tube so I can’t control the advertising. https://youtu.be/hjZ_IlP9c5A?si=dOn4Ec3Qw1xCWRnQ

  5. Having crossed the date line into June, now it’s time to do this number from Carousel.
    Oddly enough, it expresses the same sentiments as “It’s May!” — although a little more discretely, perhaps.

    I’m sensing a trend in these old musicals.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCCuhpp3bb0

    Go for the singing, stay for the dancing.

  6. Open Thread Sunday – Russian war on Ukraine and peace talks: Perun

    Russian War Goals & Ukraine Peace Talks – The Strategic Balance, Talks & A New Offensive? – Perun

    Timestamps:
    00:00:00 — Intro
    00:01:07 — Summary
    00:03:20 — Russian goals
    00:13:47 — Ukraine
    00:17:40 — Russia and NATO
    00:26:21 — The Numbers
    00:30:36 — Ukraine’s Challenge
    00:37:43 — the Cost and the Balance
    00:41:10 — Territorial Control
    00:46:54 — Ukrainian Militarisation
    00:56:13 — Peace Talks?
    01:02:40 — Channel

  7. Saw and liked that Suchonimus report earlier, om, but not so enamored of the divulging of their methods. Doesn’t comport with common sense to reveal such stuff.

  8. The drone attack is being called Russia’s Pearl Harbor. I would remind everyone that the original PH attackers got nuked.

  9. “Russia’s Pearl Harbor”? Really?
    So hilarious, since we know the war was started by Russia.

    WHO was labeling it Russia’s “Pearl Harbor” ??

  10. Russia’s Pearl Harbor? Russia’s FAFO.

    Poor, Russia, nobody expected Ukraine to fight back after the Special Military Operation in 2022.

    So who is labeling Ukraine’s attack on military airfields after three years of war on Ukraine a Pearl Harbor event, Chases Eagles? Care to provide any details?

  11. More like the loss of the Russian fleet in 1905 in their war with Japan. Sailed the Tsar’s fleet all the way from the Baltic to foreshadow the Moskva.

    And of course the useful idiots repeat the Vladdy nuclear threat, used to instill fear and enable Russian aggression. How original.

  12. I think the PH comparison is about the planning and effectiveness of the attack. It sounds like Soviet I mean rooskie strategic aviation has suffered a very heavy blow.

    You can’t really even compare it to the attack on Taranto because that was opportunistic. Tsushima was straight up smash mouth, not sneaky at all.

    Remember I wrote this last year:

    Spring has sprung, I got stung.
    I have seen the shape of things to come.
    Drone swarms.

    How would you respond if you are Vlad, remembering he is already a murdering war criminal? Something ugly is likely coming, probably with drones.

  13. Chases Eagles:

    Who are the “some are saying?”

    Why wasn’t it Clarke Field in the Phillipines?

  14. People nowadays only have room for a couple of historical references on account of not knowing much history.

    Back in 2003 saw a journalist compared American bombings in Iraq to “Dresden”. I guess “Pearl Harbor” wouldn’t have seemed plausible, but neither did “Dresden” to anyone who knew what actually happened there instead of vaguely remembering the Cliff Notes for Slaughterhouse Five through bong smoke.

    At any rate they don’t know anything, so they have to reach for the references they’ve heard of. In the future every aerial attack will be “Pearl Harbor” for fifteen minutes.

  15. When in doubt, you can always expect Vladdy to say he will nuke you. And of course the hypersonic missiles.

    No one expects the Span…..

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