Western Rifle Shooters Association
"This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.” – VADM James Stockdale, USN
https://thesaker.is/russias-ultimatum-to-the-west/
Read the whole thing, including the embedded links.
Pay special attention to the downstream effects of events 30+ years ago:
Given the lies made by the US and its pygmies over those three decades, what would you do in Putin’s place?
UPDATE 1132E 20DEC21:
