Master of the unexpected. What’s going on with electricity? Overton window shifts towards depopulation

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Putin is a master of the unexpected.  Some call it 5-D chess.  I have a simpler explanation – nobody expects him to be that stupid.

Starting a war with the west was stupid.  Attacking Kyiv through the mud with an inadequate force was stupid.  Leaving such poor defenses in Kharkiv was stupid.  The botched mobilization was stupid.  Now, putting all of his best troops in Kherson, on the west side of the wide, now unbridged Dnieper, fenced in on the west by the Ukrainian army, looks stupid to me.

The [admittedly biased] Kyiv Post had an article yesterday of intercepts from Russian soldiers complaining that they are trapped, cut off from supplies,  and being cut to shreds by superior (range, accuracy) western-supplied artillery and multiple launch rocket systems.  I believe it.

We had very little electricity yesterday and none until 9:30 today.  They cannot affort to tell us why, but these are my guesses:

1)      They don’t want the Russians to be able to assess our resiliancy.
2)      They don’t want to encourage Ukrainians to return to Kyiv, putting more stress on the system.
3)      They can perform their repairs more efficiently if they do not at the same time have to provide power.
4)      Lastly, possibly, our generation and distribution capacity might have been severely degraded.

Our house is still warm and our computers, flashlights and phones charged with the little bit we get.  I am going out to buy more flashlights, batteries and charcoal (wish me luck!) today.  Food is a secondary concern.  Even when Kyiv was besieged in March we were still able to buy food.  The roads are open.  We’ll stock up, but heat and light are the top priorities.

The Russians sent swarms of rockets to knock out our infrastructure Monday before last and the Monday before.  This week is quiet.  Few air raid sirens.  The threat of Iranian ballistic missiles has not been realized.  Lord knows why.  Are they real?  Does Iran need it for the supposed war against Saudi Arabia? Has Israel made a threat that they can’t ignore?  We won’t know.  We simply have to be thankful.

Every day I read alarming messages from every quarter.  Today the headline is

 Mainstream Media Warns of ‘Tripledemic’ This Winter — What’s Really Behind the Hype?

While influenza, RSV and COVID-19 can be problematic and dangerous for certain high-risk individuals, the overall risks associated with them are negligible for most — but “fear sells” and for Big Pharma, it sells more vaccines.

I’ve got to stop beating this horse.  Those who are not yet convinced won’t be.

Articles on depopulation are increasingly frequent.  The most common point being made is that the Covid jabs make men, and especially women, less fertile.  A second point is that major populations, among them Chinese and Jews, have amazingly few children.  They still are not to the point of assessing the impacts, good and bad, as I attempt to do in my video.  The Overton Window is shifting, but it has not yet reached me.

That’s a peek through the blinds while Lake WeBeGone  still has electricity.  The good-looking, once again slender woman is preparing a music lesson for Marianna’s set downstairs.  Zoriana is in kindergarten, Eddie is reading, and I’m getting my Internet stuff done quickly.  I’ll go shopping when the electricity goes down.

Graham