Russia

Shameless Cravens and a Plea for History

vassar - December 11, 2019 0

This is only an opinion. There is not enough hard evidence available for me to say without equivocation that Lindsey Graham is a craven, much less a shameless one. But there is enough circumstantial evidence to...

Famous Soviet Russians I’ve Colluded With

vassar - November 22, 2017 1

The Russians and Democrats are not the same. I've actually known honorable Russians. In 1991 I met a man from the USSR named Valentin Suchkov. I was working with a Ukrainian trading company in Cincinnati,...

Vindman

vassar - November 26, 2019 3

When I watched LTC Vindman march up to Congress for his off-camera testimony before Adam Schiff's impeachment committee, and heard that he was a naturalized US citizen originally from Ukraine, I first noticed the CIB (Combat Infantryman's Badge)...

Scratch a Russian and you’ll find a ……?

vassar - March 6, 2022 0

(Footnoted, 3/10) Rudyard Kipling once wrote: "I had six honest serving men who taught me all I know. They were, Who, What, Where, When, Why and How" This simple life-rule has been virtually absent in news...

Reprisals and the Killing of Civilians in War

vassar - April 9, 2022 0

"In Belgium there are many towns whose cemeteries today have rows and rows of memorial stones inscribed with a name, the date 1914, and the legend, repeated over and over: "Fusille par les Allemandes"...

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Sage-isms

Sad Mamas

vassar - February 9, 2023

Postscript I watched a gathering of parents and children at my YMCA gym for their weekly 2-hour session teaching young 5-6 year olds how to handle and shoot a basketball. About 20 kids, all races, each with a parent, mom or dad standing behind them,...

In The Can

A Harlan County, KY native, Vassar served as an Army criminal trial lawyer in Vietnam-era Asia. After his military career, he spent a number of years in corporate manufacturing management, in the textiles industry, where he crossed paths with a few too many new-generation Gordon Gekkkos and chose to move on to consulting work on behalf of "Con los pobres de la tierra quiero yo mi suerte echar", first in SE Asia, and then in the Soviet Bloc. Vassar dedicates the remainder of his life to committing his thoughts and observations to pen and paper.