Dirt in a Ukrainian Sandstorm

Steve Russell
6 min readOct 18, 2019
Natural Sandstorm from Pixabay

“The American people want to know!”

The speaker was a Republican congressman, and he was mansplaining what justified threatening the Ukrainian president with having to face Russian tanks without American-made Javelin anti-tank missiles.

The Javelins, once they have the infrared signature of a target, will pursue the target without further guidance and attack a…

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Steve Russell

Enrolled Cherokee, 9th grade dropout, retired judge, associate professor emeritus, and (so far) cancer survivor. Memoir: Lighting the Fire (Miniver Press 2020)