Ukraine's war?

 

Today's Tids Issue 5,112 

Help, I'm sinking: 

 

Sanctions are a statement of force to support Ukraine without having to sacrifice NATO country troops. The consensus is that Russia will weather any sanction storm. One reason being that Russian people don’t have that much to lose. As opposed to to wealthier nations in Europe and us here. But an even better example of potential insignificance of some sanctions is this cancellation of the Nord Stream 2. “The pipeline was never going to supply extra gas this decade. The Kremlin’s purpose was to reroute the same Siberian gas, switching it from the Ukrainian corridor to the Baltic, depriving Kyiv of self-defence leverage. Once Putin controls Ukraine, Nord Stream 2 instantly becomes irrelevant.” Europe will miss Ukraine grain exports. But Russia itself is a huge grain producer so their food chain will remain self-dependent. There is a lot going on beneath the missiles and headlines. 

 

“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones”. -Albert Einstein 

 

Today when you hear voices it is usually an ad on an app on your phone that turns on in your pocket. 

 

This Ukraine thing is one gigantic perplexity. We hear all the concerns, we feel for the citizens of Ukraine, and world leaders make tough sounding statements, but nobody wants an escalation if this morass and the catastrophic consequences such actions could bring.  

 

The Question: 

Who Said: “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.” 

 

The Headlines: 

--Russia Swarms Through Ukraine; Russian Troops Near Capitol; Prez Zelensky Says Ukraine Will Go It Alone As Powerful Nations “Watch From Afar”; Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia On Alert; EU Freezes VP’s Assets. 

—Markets Open Higher, Finish Even Higher. Economy Data Strong; Pending Home Sales Fall; One Eye Still On Ukraine. 

--Biden To Nominate Judge Ketanji Brown To Replace Breyer. 

--Convoy Of Protesting US Truck Drivers Headed To DC For Weekend Event; Disruptions Occurring Along The Way. 

-- Sally Kellerman, M*A*S*H’s original ‘Hot Lips’ Houlihan, dies aged 84. 

--- Astronomers Find Two Giant Black Holes Spiraling Toward a Collision; Phenomena 9 Billion Light Years Away. 

 

 

On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian tennis star Daniel Medvedev became the number Player in the world after Djokovic lost Tuesday. Medvedev now joins Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray as the only #1s since 2004. Will he now be banned because of his citizenship? Almost all global sporting events currently scheduled for Russia are now being moved elsewhere.  

 

You know when the groundhog comes out and sees his or her shadow, it indicates six more weeks of Winter and everybody goes into a grey cloud drama. So, when the GH comes out and doesn’t see I his or her shadow it means there are only 38 days of winter to go. (About 5 ½ weeks). And they everybody is happy and bubbly. So basically, humans go from ecstatic to depression over 4 days.  

 

To help get through the war, go out and buy a gigantic bag of Cheese-it's new product, “Snap’d” Double Cheese. Heaven, pure heaven. You will forget everything bad. 

 

The older you get the more senseless war becomes. You have seen wars fought where the only measurable result is in number of people killed and nothing achieved. You just dread the inane idea of every night on TV news watching body bags being flown home. 

 

“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.  William Tecumseh Sherman 

 

Mitch Hedberg says I when you're hungry and you feel like 2,000 of something, eat rice. 

 

The Answer: 

Dwight D. Eisenhower, a good President and one of America’s great generals said that. 

 

Remember the USSR overrunning Hungary around 1955-56. The US and allies didn’t do anything about it then either.  

 

“A war isn’t about who is right, it’s about who is left!” --Napoli 

 

This was a tedious Tids. I usually laugh more. But war is serious, and even though I don’t like it, people die and you just can’t tell jokes about it. 

 

Have a great weekend, E-v-e-r-y-b-o-d-y!!!