John Hordijk

@longestballot.bsky.social put me in coach! I’ll run in battle river crowfoot

Person I grew up with, “You need more than one set of skis?” Me, “How many bibles per person do you have in your home?”

If harming someone who is harming you to prevent yourself harm is self-defense. If a CEO is denying you lifesaving drugs and harming them puts you in prison, where you receive drugs, then it’s self-defense. But then you don’t go to prison, which means it’s not actually self-defense. A true Catch-22.

I’d like to introduce the ‘Irreversible Yes’. It’s when a single ‘yes’ locks you into a path with long-term consequences, making it hard to reverse. These decisions negate future ‘no’ choices on that topic. Be mindful—these choices need extra scrutiny! #DecisionMaking #IrreversibleYes

Long way to say, I don’t think Russia can fight another two countries with American style training and systems, and have a stalemate in 3 countries.

Russia can keep tossing men into the meat grinder, and Ukraine will chew them up. It’s a stalemate, and Russia doesn’t have the ingenuity to do anything different.

I don’t think the Russian population has the appetite for another stalemate. America’s toys of war are nice. But Americans training Ukraine’s soldiers from 2014 on is the best gift they’ve ever given Ukraine. That’s a system that’s persistent, and can grow.

I don’t know much about Estonia and Latvia. Russia sucks at war, everyone up the chain of command blows smoke about capabilities, so Putin doesn’t know how bad his army is. He’s using Ukraine bullets to ethnically cleanse his own population. That’s on Putin,they have a right to defend their country.

WWIII has started and we’re losing. Russia has won the propaganda war. They got Trump elected 2x. They don’t need a hot war for them to win. China might get Taiwan, but NK will not invade SK. Sure, NK has artillery in range of Seoul and lots of folk would die, but it would be over very quick for NK.