As normal, not all of these posts were necessarily from December, but were the 10 most read in the past month.
No. 1 was my take on former German Chancellor Angela Merkel's admitting that the Minsk Accords were nothing but a form of appeasement, to string out Putin long enough to rearm Ukraine with modern NATO armament (and training). No wonder Putin doesn't trust NATO.
No. 2 was my noting that a significant minority of Ukrainians (and that's without allowing for Zelenskyy having repressed oppo media and oppo political parties even before the Russian invasion), like a majority of Americans, want peace talks. A Twitter warmonger claimed that I had undercut myself on a back-and-forth on this. Rather, I told him that he had confirmed himself as a warmonger before I muted the conversation. (People talk about the wonkiness etc of Twitter's API, but the fact that, in a conversation, you can mute it, leave it, or mute, or block, the one problematic individual kind of belie that.)
No. 3 was me wishing a Merry fucking Christmas to Robert Jeffress for cavorting with Belial.
No. 4 came after the Brittney Griner-Viktor Bout prisoner swap. I speculated about Paul Whelan either being an actual spy, a corporate spy, or a spy wannabe.
No. 10 was related; it was about John Bolton apparently further kneecapping Russiagate. Deal with it, BlueAnon.
No. 5 goes meta and was my post about top blogging of November.
No. 6 was just before Winter Storm Elliott and was about cryptocurrency mining sucking at the ERCOT teat, and how both Rethugs and ConservaDems are OK with that.
No. 7 was about two Dem senators in the Texas Lege crafting narrow bills to partially address problems on a couple of big issues to appeal to Republicans. I remain at least halfway skeptical.
No. 8 was my one COVID-related post of the month. It was about Dr. Peter Hotez, and how, under the "let's talk science" surface, he's a Blue Anon gaslighter, grifter, and tribalist. (Side note: I have a semi-blistering post about the "People's CDC," and its butt-hurt-ness over the Emma Green piece, teed up.
No. 9 was a recent Texas Progressives roundup. Maybe Tony Tinder(holt) made that popular.
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