Sorry To Start Off With Latin
Not that sorry, really, and you'll just have to put up with it. Okay, the Latin 'Dictare' means 'To order', and from it we derive the word 'Dictator'. Referring to my 'Collins Concise English Dictionary' I see that word defined as "A ruler who is not effectively restricted by a constitution, laws, recognised opposition, etc." I think we all recognise one person who would love to be an apprentice dictator, don't we? Art!
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| Donold Judas Trump, aged 109, sporting a comb-over |
I know I used it recently yet it's such a definitive photograph I cannot help but use it again.
Incidentally, the Romans had a different definition of a dictator: under their law, he was a person appointed to manage a critical situation, able to exercise supreme authority without the usual checks and balances. One such was Cincinnatus, and yes that's where the South Canadians got the inspiration for Cincinnati, whom was a retired statesman and military leader. When the early Roman republic got into difficulties dealing with fractious French tribes, Ol' Cinc was recalled to office as a dictator. He crushed the French in just over a fortnight and promptly went back to his farm. Art!
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| "Help!" |
Okay, I am hanging this Intro off the latest Jake Broe vlog that he published on Youtube, as I annotated the whole thing and feel you ought to get the benefit of same. Like it or not. Art!
It's a sad fact for the orcses that they spent a whole year, suffered 400,000 casualties and only conquered 0.8% of Ukraine. At this rate it will take them a century to occupy the whole country, whilst suffering 40 million casualties. Nor do I see any donkeys on that graphic.
ANYWAY Jake was making the point that 12 January 2026 marks the 1,418th day of the Special Idiotic Operation, which is as long as the Soviets took to weather the Nazi invasion of the Sinister Union and push back until they occupied Berlin. It's probably illegal in Mordorvia to mention this as it makes Peter The Average look bad. This is what the Sinisters call the 'Great Patriotic War', to differentiate it from the joint Sinister-Nazi invasion of Poland, where they and the Teutons were best mates. Art!
You'd need a magnifying glass to see any Ruffian progress. This 'progress' has cost the Mordorvian economy about $1 trillion, and those are dollars, not rubles. Art!
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| Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown, hmmmm Dimya? |
Dictator five! I recall Mark Galeotti defining Putinpots 'social contract' with the orc population as being 'Keep out of politics and leave them to me and, little by little, your lives will get better.' Hmmm not any more. The 'Financial Times', quoted by Jake, bruited it about that Ruffia is running out of money. In 2020, oil and gas taxes, the 'Mineral Extraction Tax' accounted for 45% of the Ruffian budget. The FT stated in 2024 this dropped to 30.3%, and in 2025 it dropped further, to 24.5%. On this kind of progression, it may hit 19% in 2026. Real wages in Mordorvia have dropped by 5% and four out of five orcs are now worse off than pre-war. This is why Dimya is raising as many taxes as much as possible, to squeeze money out of the serfs to pay for the Tsar's war. Art!
Dictator six! What's that insulting name I have for Xi? Ah yes, 'Pandaman'. Here you see the dictators carving up the world into their spheres of influence, which reminded Conrad of another political cartoon, except it was from 1805. Art!
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| "The Plumb-pudding in danger" |
Dictator seven! Let me explicate. The chap in the red uniform is the British Prime Minister, Pitt The Younger, and the dwarvish individual wearing blue is the dictator Napoleon, whom had just been crowned King Emperor Of The Entire Universe or somesuch. The artist is James Gilray and this is his most famous satirical cartoon or painting, not sure exactly what to call it. Nappy is concentrating on carving off Europe, whilst Pitty is taking half the globe on the opposite side. In real life at this date Nappy was impotently threatening the Allotment Of Eden with invasion, having a whacking big army encamped at Boulogne. Since Perfidious Albion had just crushed the French and Spanish fleets at Trafalgar STAND UP FOR KINGY! there was zero chance of Nappy's army crossing the English Channel. Art!
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| Just don't |
Okay, enough with the dictators. Possibly apart from Trump, I could insult DJ Tango all day long.
Perfidious Albion Is - Perfidious
I've had this vlog saved in my Bookmarks and need to type up an item about it and free up resources. Art!
Vlog courtesy of 'Peter Austin' over on Youtube. I know what you're thinking 'It looks exactly like a ruined cottage. What, does Thunderbird One launch out of it?'
Not at all. Art!
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| Pete gets a different angle |
First of all, it's not a ruined cottage. It was deliberately designed to look that way and is actually in very good nick. From this site it has commanding views over acres of rolling grassland, the nearby beach and the road alongside, since it sits on a slight elevation. Art!
This is a shot of the interior, showing the concrete roof, reinforced walls and the gun ports for machine gun or rifle use use. These ports were disguised externally by being recessed, giving the impression of being a window when seen from a distance. Art!
Close-up and from 100 PROUD IMPERIAL yards away.
This is NOT a ruined cottage. | THE DRURIDGE BAY RUIN
That's the link to Pete's Youtube channel and it's worth watching for other examples of disguised pillboxes. Conrad seems to think he's got a huge collection of pages printed from the internet about this subject and we may come back to it.
You What?
This feels like a skit done by Sir Stanley Unwin, the chap who could spout convincing nonsense words and make them seem valid and scientific. Art!
South Canadian financial gibberish. What happened to 401(a), 401(b), 401(c), 401(d), 401(e), 401(f), 401(g), 401(h) and 401(i)? Plus I know the Provos are not around any more but that kind of acronym does make one raise an eyebrow.
The Sinister Sliver
If I had included the whole of those maps that Jake put up, you'd have noticed a very thin sliver of red to the immediate west of the Ukrainian border. Art!
Just as Molvova is a sovereign nation hived-off from Romania, Transnistria is a separate sovereign nation hived-off from Moldova, infested by a military orc presence that aligns it with the Kremlin. It is what's known as an 'exclave' as it is completely surrounded by other nations and has no access to the sea. The population is about 250,000 and it has an area of just over 4,000 square kilometres.
Why am I bringing this up now? Art!
There are 1,500 orc soldiers in the garrison, probably extremely happy not to be on the eastern front in Ukraine, who are now going to have problems with supply, rotations, maintenance and repair. The Kremlin, having a bad year of it so far, has pointedly not commented.
LATE UPDATE!
Jake's subsequent video had a retraction, which is an action responsible journalists carry out. The 'Daily Express' and Jake himself were working from the 'RFU' vlog, which floated the story above. THIS IS INCORRECT.
What actually happened was that, as per long-agreed contractual arrangements, the supply of Ruffian gas to Transnistria was terminated on 01/01/2026. This is not as severe as a total blockade, yet it puts the regime on notice as they now have to contend with the winter and no working power supply. Oooops.
Once again, who's laughing at that family eating their hamster?
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