Saturday, September 24, 2011

Post-modern International Order

An American made helo of the German Army being loaded on to an Antonov An-124 in AFG.

If you just came out of a Cold War coma - you would think you were in a parallel universe.




Hat tip Theo.

8 comments:

DeltaBravo said...

Sigh.  Only thing we learn from history is we fail to learn anything from history.

New reports that Medvedev is urging his best buddy Putin to run for president again.  Who didn't see that one coming?

Take a look at the new boss... same as the old boss.  Yeah.  really!

Aubrey said...

Parallel universe? I saw a movie on this once - in it the President of the US began seizing power from Congress in an attempt to create an all-powerful executive. This fictional character stated "since Congress cannot fix things, I will!" while unilaterally interpreting, changing and negating the laws passed by the legislative branch.

The writer of such a movie should be fired, one can only take suspension of disbelief so far you know!

Retired Now said...

our current President is making ex-President Bill Clinton appear more and more like someone who always told the truth to the American public. 

Adversus Omnes Dissident said...

"What a curious modern age we find ourselves living in."  - CAPT Jack Aubrey

Grandpa Bluewater said...

Kwitcherbellyakin.  Things are bad and headed south, but it used to be a lot worse.  All we got to do is throw the rascals out and things will pick up.

Mean time, be glad of the blessings we have (see picture above).

See, I can be cheerful and optimistic.  (I need to go grump now, the strain is hard on me.)

ewok40k said...

At least Clinton with help of Gingrich managed to pull the deficit to zero, with Gingrich doing the slashing cuts and Clinton doing the taxing...

Anonymous said...

I can never quite get used to it. Deploying to AFB a lot of personnel transit Manas AB, Kyrgyzstan. Stepping off the aircraft and seeing the cyrillic signs and Soviet era architecture brings back the halcyon days when knew who the bad guys were and where they at.

ewok40k said...

...and all of it to secure mineral rights for the Chinese... :P