Dear Ukraine:
How does it feel to be Czechoslovakia?
1938 occupation of Czechoslovakia by Nazi Germany, leading to the “Phoney War“.
“Peace in our time!” – Neville Chamberlain, UK Prime Minister
1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia
“Russia … aired a documentary on state television in 2015 that argued, essentially without evidence, that the invasion of Czechoslovakia was an attempt to prevent a NATO-led coup …
“… when the invasion started, the US could do no more than condemn – which Brezhnev knew. … neither President Johnson nor the American people were interested in getting involved in another proxy war against the Communists. And so, despite near global condemnation, no-one did anything.”
What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. – Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NRSV)
The Dudes, with their abject failure of a literary agent, O Ceallaigh (aka OC and The Amoeba), first descended onto the blogosphere from a rented room in Berkeley, California on New Year’s Day in 2006. They’ve moved from California to Maine to Washington to Hawaii to Washington again to Hawaii again (where they’ve finally managed to stay put, for now anyway), picking up a Quilly along the way. They’ve stayed on the blogosphere (on four different sites, two of which have since vanished), while the thing that was the blogosphere in 2006 moved to Facebook to Youtube to Twitter to Instagram to Tiktok. And a lot of, um, stuff has gone down. O Ceallaigh thought it might amuse someone out there to see just what kind of stuff has gone down over the last fifteen years, and how it looked at the time to OC and the Dudes and their gaggle of weird buddies.
