I'm tired of endless proxy wars with the Sovet Union.

Agreed.  The simple solution is for Russia (and soon China) to stop getting them started.  But once started, what are we supposed to do?  Appeasement doesn't seem to work: Let's give them Ukraine and then they'll stop.  Let's give them Taiwan and then they'll stop.  Honestly, I don't know the solution.

Nice!

There is no other place I could see to put this and it will be forgotten about soon anyway and bubble down the list. 


Over on the PB we post about family stuff all the time but not so much here.

My youngest grandson, he's 17, has played soccer for years now. He plays club level soccer in a regional league and for his three years in HS has played varsity soccer.  In his Freshman year his team advanced in the state playoffs for class 6A to the semifinal round before losing. In his Sophomore year they advanced to the final but lost 3-2 in OT.  In that game they had to play the last 16 minutes of regulation and 20 minutes of OT a man down.

Now as a Junior the team started off the year with a 16 game win streak. They were undefeated in region play (6-0) and lost their last game before the playoffs started 1-0 to a 7A team used as a tuneup to the playoffs. Once they were scored on the coach subbed in the second and third strings to get them playing time.

The playoffs consist of five games starting with a 32 team field, four team from each of eight regions, played over a three week period.  Last night was the championship game between my grandson's team and the HS that both of my sons attended. Out of the whole state, these two schools are less than nine miles apart.  As an aside the other finalist last year was only seven mile away. 


Due to their record and a GHSA coin toss the boys got home field advantage thru the first four games, the final being played a neutral field.  The boys were also considered the home team for the final game. The game got off to a rough start. In the early part of the game my grandson was issued a yellow card that resulted in the other team getting a penalty kick.  He also had to sit out two minutes before returning to play. He plays the center back position.  About halfway into the first half, 40 minute halves, our keeper was assessed a red card when he stopped a shot, had the ball in his possession and then fell on an opposing player. It was claimed that he kneed that player in the ribs or some such.  With him ejected, the backup keeper, a freshman, entered the game and we had to play the rest of the game a man down.


As horrible as that sounds, our boy played a whale of a game and shut them out 3-0 to become the 6A State Soccer Champions.  In the their five playoff games they only allowed three goals, shutting out their last two opponents. The most goals they gave up in their twenty-two games this season was two.  Final record for the year was 21-1, an impressive season for sure.


https://rrhs.cherokeek12.net/post-detail/~board/ccsd-comms/post/congratulations-to-rrhs-boys-soccer-state-champions

They also finished nationally as #1 for Spring soccer.

https://www.maxpreps.com/ga/woodstock/river-ridge-knights/soccer/spring/

Such a joy to see our criminal regime insuring the continuation of permanent war, while our scumbag SOS is distracted saving jack (ass) smith from being indicted for evidence suppression, and perjury.

I'm tired of endless proxy wars with the Sovet Union.

More of our money down the drain.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/united-states-expected-announce-400-144454414.html

The U.S. is expected to announce a new $400 million package of military aid for Ukraine on Friday, U.S. officials said, as Kyiv struggles to hold off advances by Russian troops in the northeast Kharkiv region.

This is the third tranche of aid for Ukraine since Congress passed supplemental funding in late April after months of gridlock. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had warned Thursday that his country was facing “a really difficult situation” in the east, but said a new supply of U.S. weapons was coming and “we will be able to stop them.”

According to officials, the package includes artillery, air defense and anti-tank munitions, armored vehicles and other weapons and equipment. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the aid has not yet been announced. It will be provided through presidential drawdown authority, which pulls systems and munitions from existing U.S. stockpiles so they can be sent quickly to the war front.

Almost immediately after President Joe Biden signed the $95 billion foreign aid package, the Pentagon announced it was sending $1 billion in weapons through that drawdown authority,. And just days later the Biden administration announced a $6 billion package funded through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, which pays for longer-term contracts with the defense industry and means that the weapons could take many months or years to arrive.

Russia has sought to exploit Ukraine’s shortages of ammunition and manpower as the flow of Western supplies since the outbreak of the war petered out while Congress struggled to pass the bill. Moscow has assembled large troop concentrations in the east as well as in the north and has been gaining an edge on the battlefield, Zelenskyy said.