Watership Down and The Plague Dogs

Just watched both of those films for the first time, both based on books by Richard Adams (which I have not read, yet) and both made by the same animation company, even sharing some actors (e.g. John Hurt voiced one of the main characters in each). Not going to say much about either of them, except this: I'd always heard about Watership Down and how traumatizing it supposedly is, and yeah, it gets pretty visceral at times. (Though I came out of it with a feeling of "Was that it? Was that all there was to it? That wasn't so bad.") But... well... Watership Down might as well be Winnie the Pooh or something compared to The Plague Dogs. Holy shit. o_O

Granted, this is me as a 46 year old saying that. If I'd seen these movies when I was a kid, they probably would've messed me up something fierce. (And I'm still saying The Plague Dogs kind of did mess me up a little bit, even now.)

Trump upends US policy on Ukraine and says he and Putin have agreed to begin talks on ending the war

(Would've put quotation marks around the above headline, as I usually do on headlines that are just copy/pasted from the article I'm linking to, but they didn't fit, because Dreamwidth's subject field length is still inadequate.)

"Trump subsequently announced that he'd also spoken with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but only after his talk with Putin. After the calls, White House officials declined to clarify whether Ukraine would be a party to the U.S. negotiations.

"That sent a potentially dramatic signal that Washington and Moscow might work to hammer out a deal to end fighting in Ukraine by going around that country's government. Doing so would break with the Biden administration, which steadfastly insisted Kyiv would be a full participant in any decisions made.

"In another blow to Ukraine's Western-leaning aspirations, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said at NATO headquarters in Brussels that NATO membership was unrealistic for Ukraine, it should abandon hopes of winning all its territory back from Russia and any security guarantees for Kyiv would have to be borne by European countries."

*weary sigh*

In other words, prominent Putin-nutsack-licker Donald Trump is blithely doing his pimp's bidding, just as expected.

So, in addition to my prediction about Israel/Gaza coming true, my prediction from that same post about Ukraine being proper fucked as a result of Trump becoming SCROTUS IMPOTUS again appears to be coming true, too. Any "peace" that comes from this will be purely at Putin's fickle whim, nothing more.

And like I also said before, Zelensky was a fool to trust a single word out of Trump's turgid face-anus. Or... maybe Zelensky just realizes that the writing is on the wall and is simply trying to make the best he can of a ridiculously terrible situation (now made exponentially worse by Trump's presence and involvement and playacting as if he has a single fucking clue at all).

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Oh, and in another win for Putin, Tulsi Gabbard has been confirmed as director of national """""intelligence.""""" Interestingly and weirdly enough, Moscow's Bitch McConnell was the only GQPer in the Senate who actually didn't vote for her. He was also the only one who didn't vote for Hegseth, either, apparently.