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In the old West, there was a term for every person or entity. We’ve lost touch with some of the most effective ones in modern times. Take the word “dry-gulcher,” for instance. In the cowboy days, this kind of individual (or group of dry gulchers) was highly derogatory, the basic meaning being someone who betrays another at a moment’s notice. Dry-gulching, bushwacking, and even addle-headed terms fit today’s Western leadership and a few Russians. Let’s look at what’s happening with some scallywags and ambushers who make honest sodbusters want to “shoot the cat” (vomit). Even before Wagner PMC boss Yevgeny Prigozhin went turncoat…

I think Nazi symbols will be America’s official and unofficial excuse to walk away from Ukraine. It will be even deadlier, more political blowback; it will be like in Afghanistan but worse. The first stage, with the West growing sick and tired of the never-ending demands, and with little real results, is to cut back on funding—and then to let the Neo Nazis and their NATO partners stew in their own juices. But for the sake of discussion, I just want to know what happened to the films about WW2, fascism, and denazification…

Who has the inside track on why the head of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, went turncoat the other day? Prigozhin, whose mouth has gotten more significant with each small victory of his skilled fighters, betrayed his fellow citizens, his president, and hundreds of thousands of Russian military personnel, laying it on the line in Ukraine. The recent past and the current news cycle of the days surrounding what Vladimir Putin called “an armed mutiny” give us clues as to Prigozhin’s motives. June 24th, 10:00 Moscow time, President Vladimir Putin…