#Ukraine #Russia
Thursday, October 29, 2026
Monday, October 26, 2026
Beyond Stupid
#Russia #Ukraine #DroneWarfare #SupplyChain #StarShield
#Demography #Slavophiles #Westernizers
#Iran
RantWoman does not entirely apologize for smushing several topics into one post.
Enjoy?
Historical framing
The Escalation Trap. Iran in period of maximum leverage to destroy the Trump Presidency
Iran looking for payback. Reports of plots against US diplomats. Note evacuations of US diplomats.
President #StableGenius needs a world crisis between November and January
Let's invite Europe to the party?
#Russia #Ukraine #Europe #NATO
Pyotr Kurzin: is the latest peace talk proposal inviting Ukraine AND Europe just performative
And then there are the tanks, new tanks moved to the borders of new NATO states.
Radars too,
Belarus
Kaliningrad
Russians buying up sites near military locations and assumed to be good for spying
In other words, who needs nukes. Drones are more than enough excuse for more militarization.
The War and Russian Grain Shipments and Russia headed to economic collapse
#Russia #Ukraine #GrainWar #BlackSea #Sanctions #NATO #DroneWarfare
Detailed account of shipping levels, prices, sanctions, military attack impacts
War impacts grain shipments from Ukraine also but Ukraine has other options.
And the war comes to Russia in LOTS of ways
Analysis of Ratcliffe's August visit to Moscow
The Military Show channel has multiple other videos
Sunday, October 25, 2026
Oh Rats. Elon is having a bad week and lots of people are paying the price
#SpaceX #SpaceForce #Elon #Privatization #StarShield
Europe needs more nukes?
#NuclearExercises #NuclearDeterence #NATO #Europe
The question mark in the title is the point. What about better diplomacy? What about fewer slimeballs "negotiating" on behalf of the US? Putin?
RantWoman understands the point of nuclear deterrence, but in an age of AI trying to run wild all over critical connectivity dependent infrastructure and war-related disruptions in supplies of almost everything, WHO NEEDS NUKES to do damage?
Malcolm Nance says it all about Musk, Diesel...
#StarlinkThrottled #Treason #Nationalize #Russia #Ukraine #WarCrimes
As an aside, JAPAN
Saturday, October 24, 2026
Likely not the only Russian saboteur but a VERY big fish
#Russia #Ukraine #Karpenko #DroneWarfare #Stupnikov
Description of high casualty military action and some footage of explosions.
It's war. It's awful. And there are ways to fight what is wrong.
Strategy?
#Strategy #Trump #Russia #Europe #TheDonRoeDoctrine #SmallManSyndrome #PivotalError #History
The US is in trouble.
And Putin is in trouble
Putin Said He'd Restore Russia. He Destroyed It Instead | Sarah Paine
Friday, October 23, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz: disinformation? misunderstood information
#StraitOfHormuz #DroneAttacks #TankerTrackers
Data about how much oil is getting loaded and moving? Who has reliable data?
Senator Kennedy says...
Love him or hate him, agree or disagree, sometimes just listen to Sen. Kennedy.
Thursday, October 22, 2026
Europe standing up to the "absolute BS" coming from President #StableGenius
#Ukraine #Russia #Europe #Putin #Trump
Realignment and an MoU
#MuslimCountries
Interesting. RantWoman sarcastically cannot fathom a single reason anyone in the world would fail to trust the US and want to realign and reprioritize their international relations.
Watch for some fresh new Islamophobia?
Is it way too much to hope that there will be some thoughtful area studies specialists and diplomats in this picture?
France and the world
#France #FuelPrices #Xenophobia #Europe #Education
RantWoman is starting out with TYT and will strive to collect some other perspectives.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026
The chaotic non-evacuation of the US Naval base in Bahrain
#Bahrain #USNavalBase #IncompetentLeadership #Iran
How many more ways can President #StableGenius and the Secretary of #WarCrimes find to completely disrespect ordinary members of the US military?
What a strategic disgrace. What an embarrassment on SO many levels.
Who on earth can be induced to join a military that so blatantly disregards the realities of our troops' family lives? Not that RantWoman is a big fan of people joining the military. RantWoman trusts that our troops are SUPPOSED to get training about responsible actions. Also, RantWoman does not think people should get sent off to STUPID WARS in the first place.
Yet another way the current administration finds to screw ordinary people.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
Will the BBC actually get to have Jack Smith sit for a deposition????
#J6 #JackSmith #BBC
Where the HELL has the #GOP been?
Here we are in the land of the rebellious colonials depending the Brits, The Guardian, Reuters, the BBC to tell us the truth about our own government!
Thank you to the BBC for having more backbone than ABC and all the legal firms that just rolled over at the beginning of President #StableGenius 2.0
Thank you to Reuters for looking at satellite images of all the damage to oil production infrastructure at the beginning of the US / Israel assault on Iran.
And thank you to the Guardian for relentless attention to LOTS of important issues.
And some more comments
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Trump has a RUSSIA problem and the Lindsary Graham sanctions act leaves WAY too much up to the President
#Russia #Putin #Trump #Sanctions #Diesel #Ukraine
Trump Engages in TREASON, Labeled a TRAITOR, as Russia Declares CHECKMATE!!
And in news from Ukraine
The NY Post of all places says no relation between Ukraine strikes and diesel prices.
Saturday, October 17, 2026
The stupidest "October surprise" ever.
Elections2026 #Midterms #Disinformation #Fearmongering
Dear voters.
USE YOUR COMMON SENSE.
There is probably more nonsense coming!
The Secretary of #WarCrimes, a gay Prussian, drone operators, and #AI
RantWoman is posting this item as history without comment about MANY themes
Friday, October 16, 2026
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Waste, Fraud, Abuse, trafficking: all the things
#SNAP #HighCrimeArea #Trafficking
Posted without further comment
Oh look. It's Never Trump Republicans at the Bitchuation Room
#TheBulwark #LizCheney
Full disclosure. RantWoman is a fan of Francesca Florentini and definitely shares a concern about anyone being too close to Liz Cheney and thinking she is their friend instead of a sometimes valuable ally.
Why take advice from people who lost to Trump TWICE?"
Thoughts for everyone promising to deal with extremists even when the "extremists" win elections by speaking to what voters want.
Firing squad livestreamed? And other outrages
#FiringSquad #Livestream #SecretaryOfDEFENSE #PeteHegseth #MilitarySlamPoetry
Some redundant themes but also recapitulation of old themes
Is executing a guy in a wheelchair by firing squad on livestream just to grotesque for President #StableGenius?
Hegseth Thrown UNDER THE BUS As Trump Panics Over Execution Backlash
Hegseth Visibly Shaken after BOOS ERUPT!
Something from a while ago
‘I Don’t Wanna Hear Your Speech!’: Sen. Shaheen SHUTS DOWN Hegseth Over Missing Billions
And Thomas Massie explaining articles of impeachment against the Secretary of #WarCrimes
'Nobody Came To Save Him' Massie Traps Hegseth From All Ends, Unleashes Hell On War Chief
Trump's Pentagon FORCED To Admit Pete Hegseth LIED About This
Wednesday, October 14, 2026
Singaporean container ship sunk in Strait Hormuz
#StraitOfHormuz #Centcom #OilPrices
Multiple container and tanker ships struck. One other known to have sunk.
Trying to reality check info put out by US Centcom
Fuel prices so high because cost per barrel up 10-17 times over last year.
Deficit in reserves from oil not coming out at usual levels over summer.
At some point, risk is going to get too high even for companies willing to run risks for the price.
Against all this background, the diesel deal President #StableGenius allegedly cooked up will not make a dent in prices for US consumers.
NOT solvable militarily. NEED POLITICAL resolution.
The Diesel discussion: Putin trolling the West
#Iran #Putin #StraitOfHormuz #Russia #Diesel #Midterms #Ukraine #PerformativePolitics #NATO #LowInformationVoters #DaysOfOurTransatlanticism #Europe
Senators say no.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Monday, October 12, 2026
No bull prize and a very own US version of a beheading video
Please bear with RantWoman's spell of VERY BAD FRIEND commentary
The Nobel Prize
Once again, the Nobel committee has bypassed President #StableGenius, this year recognizing an indefatigable judge on the International Criminal Court. A WOMAN. No country to invade but unfortunately for the rule of law another justice-related organization for the US government to harass.
Further Quaker specific snark: President #StableGenius still has a long way to go to top Quaker luminary Floyd Schmoe's decades-long campaign of entitlement based on his work rebuilding houses in Hiroshima after the US dropped the atomic bomb on the city. If President #StableGenius started practicing Quaker worship, would his odds improve? How much repentance and Quaker worship would it take???
The Execution of Major Hasan
Redundant but RantWoman is going to say it anyway: The world is justifiably outraged that the Secretary of #WarCrimes wants to livestream the execution by firing squad of Nidal Hasan, the arguably severely mentally ill army psychiatrist responsible for a mass shooting at Fort Hood. (tagging #NDEAM)
RantWoman cannot imagine what it must have been like to be in his shoes trying to treat people responsible for terrible violence against his co-religionists and we are not even going near the wisdom of any war in the first place.
RantWoman is also moved by social media posts by trauma responders who patched him up in the middle of a mass casualty event when no one knew who was who. RantWoman admires the standard of "that's what we do."
Most of all, Mr. Hasan cannot be allowed to become a martyr. The US already has more than enough enemies in the Muslim world and only really SICK people want our very own US version of beheading videos!
Oh No. No Russian bots for the midterms and other forms of Cyberwar
#Yandex #Russia #Ukraine #Cyberwar #HybridWarfare
Will the Russian bots be back online in time for the US midterms? Who else has bots cranking out disinformation?
And who is behind the attack on French refrigerators?
Large question: who needs nukes to cause havoc when we have hybrid warfare?
is it really bots or general Yandex performance issues after Ukraine hits?
Sunday, October 11, 2026
More #SCsen debates please?
#SCsen #China #AI #DataCenters #Wind #Solar #DrillBabyDrill #GasPrices #Nuclear #Regulation
Random snarky comments before attempting to digest nuance:
Libertarians are always good for keeping a conversation out of some possible ruts.
Shout out to Sen. Graham for celebrating the fact that all three people on the stage including the Libertarian are women.
RantWoman promises to find some male candidates whose hair merits opining but does want to observe that all the candidates looked professional. RantWoman especially appreciates that Sen. Graham seems to have gotten a bit of a makeover about both hair and glasses. As an aside, RantWoman will be happy to narrate an exhaustive description of her own visual experience and how with 3X magnification and a 27" monitor she is in a position to comment on people's hair.
RantWoman was not fully tracking the context when Sen. Graham exclaimed "My husband imports toy guns from China." REALLY? Get 'em started early with gun violence training." MAYBE RantWoman will revisit the context.
Concise Clip about the war on Iran. Senator Graham appears to have drunk the Koolaid being poured out by President #StableGenius and the Secretary of #WarCrimes. Iran was abiding by the #JCPOA until #DonSnoreleone tore up the agreement.
God knows: there is probably no point in trying to insert comments about nuclear deterrence or a global nonproliferation regime into debate time limits. Plus, there are plenty of active wars just now, none of which, THANK HEAVEN, have involved actual nuclear weapons.
This is an interesting presentation of additional commentary intercut with the other candidates' questions. RantWoman did not have a great experience with the audio but is linking it here just as an artifact.
Pyotr Kurzin conversation with historian Tina Fordham
#Russia #Ukraine #DieselDeal #GreatPower #SpheresOfInfluence
What the Ship--vessel hits and disinfo
#StraitOfHormuz #Iran #BabAlMandab
Always Check multiple sources and don't automatically trust #AI
Thursday, October 8, 2026
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Timothy Snyder takes the temperature of US democracy
#PressFreedom #VoteAnyway #NGOs #SiliconValley #UStaxDollars
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
"We don't want sirens!" and "Down with the tsar" at a protest
#Russia #Ukraine #OilAndGasProduction #Iran #StraitOfHormuz
Beyond "Russia always lies," check other sources about the Irkutsk plague issues
really pointed commentary about the war on Iran, diesel prices, and how President #StableGenius wa is allowing Russia to make way more money on the oil market.
As for Siberia and authoritarian states and ...
and the fruits of a whole evening binge watching
a few notes that seem important scribbled near some of the links.
Definitely in CONCERNED but try not to panic mode.
Monday, October 5, 2026
Michael Fanone dissects two teens' videos in TX ICE stop
#ICE #TX #USCitizens
Readers who don't like the way police officers think, just DON'T WATCH THE VIDEO unless you care about endless ICE / DHS efforts to spin, spin, spin rather than provide and interact with facts.
"In my years on the job, cameras were not the enemies."
No lights No radio: a captain's account of transiting the Strait under US escort
#StraitOfHormuz #USEscort #LowPowerRadar #Phillippines #COVID
LOTS of info about how the US navy appears to conduct escort operations. Lots of tips about what to believe or not believe from different monitoring streams
The amount of oil moving is SLOWLY approaching the pre-war movement levels.
Merchant mariners caught in the crossfire
"I'm very proud. I enjoy my job."
Sunday, October 4, 2026
Plague, nuclear super terror, and more of the war on Ukraine
#Plague #NuclearTerror #Russia #Putin #Ukraine #BioWeapons
If President #StableGenius can threaten nuclear war on Iran, why would we not be hearing rumors of Russian super weapons.
What the Ship--this week
#StraitOfHormuz #WarRiskCosts #ShadowFleet #Sanctions
Who WANTS to need useful information like this?
Escalation and Pickaxe Mountain
#Iran #NuclearWeapons
High quality rant from Ana Kasparian
President #StableGenius "We're all going to die anyway."
Saturday, October 3, 2026
Friday, October 2, 2026
The problem with the phrase "Walk in the Light
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| A lighted mobility cane in front of some kind of artwork |
Please read on for why literalist "walk in the Light" is not a fun thing just because one has a "light sword" mobility cane.
Adventures of RantWoman: Blindness gear for Star Wars groupies--and people who just need to get to work?
Why are democrats NOT campaigning on antiwar sentiment?
Advice and contemplation of this election and the one coming up.
Thursday, October 1, 2026
NDEAM: Reprise of Binge blogs past
It's National Disability Employment Awareness Month, #NDEAM
RantWoman promises binge blog.
Will RantWoman turn reflective?
Um, check out some greatest hits.
RantWoman and the RSOF: Search results for #NDEAM
RantWoman's first binge blog on the topic was in October 2011. Ay-yi-yi. Check it out?
October 2011 before RantWomam started getting all flashy.
Stay tunnnned
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