The Perched Eye blog is 12+ years old, from 2009 with President Obama's election. Our focus has been eclectic ... the ways and directions of American politics and culture, and occasionally commenting on the potential impact of new technologies. Pericles21's observations sometimes attract a critical eye, but the 'pen' remains unblunted.
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Putin has declared a call-up of maybe 300,000. Sad. Putin doesn’t have to train or equip them (naive western reasoning).
The lament of a new Russian conscript headed for Ukraine — cotton shirt and pants (& winter’s coming), sneakers, a canteen of meth-laced weak tea, a WW2/1 rifle, and 30 bullets… you won’t last long enough to even use that. But, 'Rodina'.
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