Dictatorship & corruption go hand-in-shoe. News coverage of Putin’s war are redolent of similar items from latter stages of U.S. involvement in Cambodia where Cambodia generals received pay for each person under that general’s command. Problems arose when the U.S. counted on...1/4

X-number of Cambodian soldiers for an assault when the actual force was 1/10 the size on paper. Putin depended on materiel, funds for which had been siphoned to buy yachts in Cyprus. Some of the MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) carried by Russian troops had expiration dates in 2002. 2/4

Among scary thoughts arisen from Putin’s war, from a U.S. perspective, is trump admires/would B Putin. B4 it seemed trump is neither as smart nor as stable as Putin. trump made Ukraine more vulnerable to Russian attack delaying/depriving Ukraine of weapons. trump is not fit...3/4

to be in the same room as Ukraine’s Zelensky. We must replace GOP’s leadership. I’m Mark Small. I’m pro-choice, pro environment, pro-civil rts & pro-democracy. I’m GOP candidate for Indiana House District 86. I approve of this blog. Hell, I wrote it. 4/4