Yesterday,   Ukraine pulled off a spectacular drone attack on Russia that changed modern warfare : Outgunned, outmanned, outspent and out-USA'd, Ukraine $400 drones have changed the war with Russia. By early this year, drones were accounting for 60% of 70% of the destruction to Russian equipment. Yesterday, in one swooping military operation, Operation Spider Web, 18 months in the planning, drones took out 30% of Russia's strategic bombers, maybe 41 of them. Watch this Rachel Maddow reportage  of this supreme embarrassment to Putin. The humiliating blow to the Kremlin was  filmed by Ukraine to confirm the success . This attack in many ways compares to the Japan's strike on Pearl Harbor in 1941. This did not only occur near the Ukraine-Russia border. One strike was Olenya on the Arctic Kola Peninsula. Another attack occurred at the Belaya air base in the Irkutsk region in Eastern Siberia, where Tu-22m bombers were destroyed. Mostly hit were : The Tupolev Tu-95, whic...

Before getting into the COVID-19 Pandemic, here is a New York Times viewpoint from this morning on how Biden will tax the very rich: The data is a reminder of   just how far   taxes on the wealthy have fallen over the past 70 years. In the decades just after World War II, many corporations paid about half of their profits in federal taxes. (Shareholders, who are disproportionately affluent, effectively pay those taxes). Today, corporate taxes are   only about one-fourth as large , as a share of G.D.P., as they were in the 1950s and ’60s. Also from the NYT: Bill and Melinda Gates are divorcing , raising questions about the future of their philanthropic foundation. I began reading Gates' new book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster . Bill McKibbens' review , where he starts with: First things first — much respect to   Bill Gates   for his membership in the select club of ultrabillionaires not actively attempting to flee Earth and colonize Mars . For the record, here...