What Do We Do Now?

It depends on which story you want to believe

Mike Meyer
3 min readNov 12, 2022
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by Mike Meyer ~ Honolulu ~ November 11, 2022

Democracy has been saved in America and the Russian army has retreated from Kherson. Of these only the second appears to be more than a very incremental improvement.

The Ukraine army has officially entered Kherson very carefully. This is a remote controlled war waged by American imperial forces against a much reduced Russian opponent with nuclear arms. We all know, instinctively, how dangerous this is although the threat is being constantly minimalized in our media.

That media is the primary theater of this war and the depth of sophistication of the American augmented reality is stunning. This has become a nuclear tipped contest to see who are the most gullible, the Americans or the Russians.

It appears that the Russian conscripts and their families facing the decimation of the Russian forces are not as gullible as the distant Americans or the buffered Russians. The later have not felt anything but annoyance at the rebranding of their lattes.

The abandonment of Russian forces in Kherson is being well used by Ukraine. If what we hear is true, the Russians claimed to remove all of their forces from Kherson at phenomenal speed. The alternative is they did not have the…

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Mike Meyer

Writer, Educator, Campus CIO (retired) . Essays on our changing reality here, news and more at https://rlandok.substack.com/