At least we can surmise that some Norwegians at NATO headquarters in Brussels are reading THE MAXEY CHRONICLES; especially its opinion on how to resolve the Russo-Ukrainian War. Stian Jenssen is Director of the Private Office of the NATO Secretary General. At a panel discussion in his home country, Arendal, Norway, he stated a very logical conclusion to the Russo-Ukrainian War. “ I think that a solution could be for Ukraine to give up territory, and get NATO membership in return,” On August 10, 2023, this Blogger published : Roger Cohen's Russian Think Piece in NEW YORK TIMES Begs the Question: Was Gerry Maxey Right    about Russia TEN YEARS AGO? It contained the correct solution to the Russo-Ukrainian War. “The correct solution to this issue would have been Clinton enabling the partition of Ukraine, with the Donbas and Crimea going to Russia; and Ukraine joining the E.U. and NATO in 1993….THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.” Barbara Tuchman, in her masterpiece, THE GUNS OF AUGUST, defined the b

  This Blogger respects Russians; as Frederick the Great stated :” It takes two bullets to take a Russian soldier out; one to kill him and one to  stop him.” This Blogger   likes Russians; even though once, in Moscow, during the Soviet era, his incredibly attractive tour guide, aka KGB agent, told him and his brother   that they were in danger of being hit, fatally, by a Soviet car crossing a Moscow street. T his Blogger’s brother told her that he had ridden in a Soviet Car, the LADA; and that he could damn well survive any hit by that piece of junk. She laughed. That night, this Blogger’s brother slept in his room, under his bed, drunk. This Blogger admires the way Russians do business; when Soviet diplomats were kidnapped in Lebanon, the KGB paid the ransoms immediately, without complaint. Shortly thereafter, Beirut was flooded with Soviet agents and Soviet bribes; the kidnappers were identified. They were abducted, tortured and  castrated; their dead bodies strung from l

This Blogger gets many emails from his world class Readers; some are even flattering.   Recently, he received an email from a graduate student at an Eastern college; she is very smart (she sent me a copy of her transcripts). She wants to be a futurist, just like her putative hero, this Blogger. She wanted to know: what training is necessary for that to happen? This Blogger was trained by Dave Q. He    was a World War II veteran; he had been an infantryman in the Philippines Campaign, saw combat. The Japanese High Command did not want to defend Manila; however, over 16,000 Imperial Japanese Marines    mutinied. They decided to defend Manila to the last man. The Imperial Marines dug in, in the ancient, walled part of Manila, a warren of treacherous,  dangerous streets. They defied the Americans, to come in after them. The Americans did; everyday Americans, future Rotarians, Shriners, former butchers, post men, milk men, bell boys, sons of ministers, would be priests, cowboys, gangsters,