10 week “action” blog bucket #2 begins 2023 March 05 — reshape lifestyle (Amazon music library Prime shipping Prime video Plex.tv tv-stream/music better T-mobile quality data plan +35$/mo includes Netflix Prime music library), real retirement as after thought,
updated 2023mar12U11am
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Health non-routine:
10 - U boot gas Sakura Air4 gel rest able to shift with sandal M 269# V8 very tired like last week caught up apple no peanut butter 269# binge #3 ice chips cherries T two dumps promise return to normal began turmeric this week W R oats two jelly-filled milk cake apple peanut butter skipped boot for second time with risk injury sandal shifting F oats milk bread/butter donut apple peanut butter A TXRH foot pain and shifting is better for this third week of a six month healing adventure U
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Niceties non-routine:
10 - U M streamed Prime video Jim G. in car Eileen Jean update T arthritis talk W R Eileen came over from second shift bunko switch John/Jean encouraged sequencing not paralleling multiple malady Tx Jackie stroke Nancy says Hi Charlie shared that he had a current girlfriend Charles spry from gym workout did some sing along to Dock song Amazon Music froze F increased Tmobile 3G today took iPhone off silent on for weeks A got rid of cardboard box from trunk, Air4 moves closer to entertainment/backup old computer with seemingly healed screen, new U
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As-set Residence In Motion (RIM) non-routine:
10 - U M no COA M2 download/internet did migration at McD M2 is faster updated 13.2.1 T no messages in iCloud or M2 where app works M2 charges slowly got iMessages synced to M2 W iCloud Drive updated from Air4 and M2 R Air4 seems healed used for free music free video Sheen Hannibal Tmobile data plan is the quality pits F got into Netflix A Apple Personal Setup advises M2 w/power on 24hour wifi to solve no current texts on M2 then call back (hoping the problem would go away) got Apple to change forwarding texts from iPhone to M2 setting U
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Comment 23w10: Comfort eating chosen to ‘ease’ foot pain. Cruise Bypass construction daily. Perhaps cast instead of boot. May have lost some M+ blog info but it was posted to internet thus corrected. Real retirement was not the aim of the week, it resulted from the best salvage of a confluence of problems — an opportunity to reset/tweak Harv’s lifestyle. (1) car (2) climate (3) Sakura TXRH weekend rest (4) COA computer activity dine usually nap Walmart Roma tomatoes grapes (comfort/celebration binges should cease). U
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World War 3.
always a bogeyman |
In an early morning attack on targets across the country, Russian forces apparently added several hypersonic missiles, known as Kinzhals — or "Daggers" in Russian — to the lethal mix. Ukrainian forces say their defensive capabilities are not up to the task of taking out a Kinzhal.Six Kinzhals were included in Thursday's attack, according to Ukrainian defense forces. Although Russia has used these weapons before, in the opening weeks of the conflict, Yuriy Ignat, an air force spokesman, told Ukrainian TV that the enemy had never fired so many of them in a single attack. Ignat said only 34 of the 81 total incoming Russia missiles were shot down.
In an Epic Battle of Tanks, Russia Was Routed, Repeating Earlier MistakesA three-week fight in the town of Vuhledar in southern Ukraine produced what Ukrainian officials say was the biggest tank battle of the war so far, and a stinging setback for the Russians. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/world/europe/ukraine-russia-tanks.html
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) {Ukraine cost is 0.2%of US GDP} on Friday urged the United States and its allies to renew their resolve to help Ukraine as it stands up to Russian “thuggery,” tacitly pushing back against members of his own party who have become loudly skeptical of Ukraine’s fight as the conflict passes the one-year mark. “America and our friends need to finish waking up from our holiday from history, welcome Finland and Sweden into NATO by this summer, and make significant investments in military modernization and our defense-industrial capacities that are commensurate with the major challenges we face,” McConnell said in a statement, shortly before appearing alongside President Sauli Niinisto in Helsinki to support Finland’s bid to join NATO. The message marked a stark contrast to the one pushed by former president Donald Trump and some congressional Republicans, who criticized President Biden’s trip to Kyiv earlier this week and have called for ending or slowing aid to Ukraine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/24/mitch-mcconnell-tells-us-wake-up-threat-russia-ukraine-war-anniversary/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3939193%2F63fa48711b79c61f87a8cf80%2F598b051fae7e8a68162a1429%2F27%2F72%2F63fa48711b79c61f87a8cf80&wp_cu=639b84fe3ddb27af65b99f6cacbf7a23%7CC0DBC114CDAE2BA7E0430100007FAD1A
Analysts are now asking what options China might consider if it looks like President Putin is facing a humiliating battlefield defeat. Researchers in America say that Beijing is already supplying Russia with dual-use equipment, technology which can appear to be civilian but which can also, for example, be used to repair jet fighters. It has also not tried to hide the fact that it is buying up Russian oil and gas to make up for markets its neighbour lost because of sanctions which followed the invasion. In a way, the Kremlin is doing China's dirty work. It is draining Western military resources and putting pressure on Nato and if Russia's economy tanks because of it, does that really matter to Beijing? It will just need more Chinese products for the recovery afterwards. The problem is that Western countries have been quite united, Russia does not appear able to win and, increasingly, China is being seen standing side by side with a bully who forced a bloody, prolonged war on Europe. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-64735707
Bergen: How would you grade Putin in this campaign? Has he got anything right? Petraeus: Putin has earned a failing grade to date. Let’s recall that the first and most important task of a strategic leader is to “get the big ideas right” – that is, to get the overall strategy and fundamental decisions right. Putin clearly has failed abysmally in that task, resulting in a war that has made him and his country a pariah, set back the Russian economy by a decade or more (losing many of Russia’s best and brightest, and prompting over 1,200 western companies to leave Russia or reduce operations there), done catastrophic damage to the Russian military and its reputation and put his legacy in serious jeopardy. That said, we should not underestimate Putin. Putin still believes that Russia can “out-suffer” the Ukrainians, Europeans, and Americans in the same way that Russians out-suffered Napoleon’s army and Hitler’s Nazis. And the US and our NATO and western allies and partners need to do all that we can, as quickly as we can, to enable Ukraine and prove Putin wrong. https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/14/opinions/petraeus-how-ukraine-war-ends-bergen-ctpr/index.html
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war has set off a historic exodus of his own people. Initial data shows that at least 500,000, and perhaps nearly 1 million, have left in the year since the invasion began — a tidal wave on scale with emigration following the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution and the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Now, as then, the departures stand to redefine the country for generations. And the flood may still be in its early stages. The war seems nowhere near finished. Any new conscription effort by the Kremlin will spark new departures, as will worsening economic conditions, which are expected as the conflict drags on. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/13/russia-diaspora-war-ukraine/
...some Ukrainian units have been running short of munitions as the tempo of Russian operations has increased. “The key to success on the battlefield is effective fire damage, which requires an appropriate amount of weapons and ammunition,” said the commander of Ukrainian forces Valeriy Zaluzhnyi on Saturday. Analysts say the challenge for the Ukrainians is to resupply frontline units with shells and anti-tank missiles fast enough. Russian forces continue to have a distinct advantage in firepower. On Saturday they launched a barrage of thermobaric missiles at Vuhledar, a reminder that they are more capable of inflicting destruction than taking territory.
Nearly 200,000 Russian troops have been killed or wounded in Ukraine, a stark symbol of how badly Vladimir Putin’s invasion has gone, according to Western officials. Moscow is sending poorly trained recruits, including convicts, to the front lines in eastern Ukraine to pave the way for more seasoned fighters, U.S. and allied officials say. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/02/us/politics/ukraine-russia-casualties.html
Russia launched its bloody, full-scale invasion almost one year ago, prompting Western countries to send weapons and aid to the government in Kyiv. Speaking in Volgograd - the modern name for Stalingrad - Mr Putin hinted that he could seek to move beyond conventional weapons. "Those who hope to defeat Russia on the battlefield do not understand, it seems, that a modern war with Russia will be very different for them," the 70-year-old leader said. "We are not sending our tanks to their borders, but we have the means to respond. It won't be limited to the use of armoured hardware. Everyone must understand this."Mr Putin was in Volgograd to mark the anniversary of the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the World War Two conflict which saw the Soviet army capture nearly 91,000 German troops and turn the tide of the war.Over a million people perished in the battle - the bloodiest of World War Two.Throughout the war in Ukraine, Mr Putin has falsely sought to present Russia's invasion as a battle against nationalists and Nazis - who he claims are leading the Kyiv government."Again and again we have to repel the aggression of the collective West." But he vowed that while it was "unbelievable but true" that Russia was again being threatened by German tanks, Moscow had an answer for any country that threatened it. Volgograd was temporarily renamed Stalingrad for the day to mark the occasion, and earlier this week a new bust of the former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was unveiled. Stalin - who led the Soviet Union between 1924 and his death in 1953 - was accused of orchestrating a famine in Ukraine between 1932-33. The event - called the Holodomor by Ukrainians - killed an estimated 5 million people and was recognised as a genocide earlier this week in Bulgaria.
The U.S. plans to send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, officials said, a big step in arming Kyiv in its efforts to seize back territory from Russia. The White House is expected to announce a decision as early as Wednesday, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity. One official said the number of Abrams tanks could be between 30 and 50. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/01/24/world/russia-ukraine-news?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20230124&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=91739846&segment_id=123408&user_id=c169c5df23b5bd14a95e704d648953e4
Despite German efforts to pressure the U.S. into providing Abrams tanks to Ukraine, the Pentagon’s top leaders are against sending them, three U.S. officials said. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/top-us-officials-dont-want-give-ukraine-tanks-rcna66753
The German government signaled it may send its own Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine if the U.S. also agrees to send Ukraine the M1 Abrams, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisting Germany will only act in concert with allies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/01/23/nato-unity-ukraine-tanks-lloyd-austin/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F38ed07b%2F63cec208ef9bf67b236e3aac%2F598b051fae7e8a68162a1429%2F55%2F73%2F63cec208ef9bf67b236e3aac&wp_cu=639b84fe3ddb27af65b99f6cacbf7a23%7CC0DBC114CDAE2BA7E0430100007FAD1A
What the hell is the West waiting for? In an extraordinarily powerful - and emotional - rallying cry, BORIS JOHNSON implores Britain’s allies to give Ukraine all the weapons it needs to win NOW. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11667727/BORIS-JOHNSON-sooner-help-Ukraine-victory-sooner-suffering-over.html