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SNAFU

NAUTICAL LOG has now recovered and is back writing Posts.  During a months illness there was not much to do other than watch the News and keep abreast with events.  It was not edifying!! Between the take over of the Crimea and a Civil War in Ukraine, flight MH 370, and the Korean ferry disaster one was not really encouraged to recover.  But NAUTICAL LOG  is still around in this 21st. Century which is not going at all well.  The problem basically is Leadership or more precisely the lack of it.  In the United States it is clear that the Administration is totally incompetent, its leader overwhelmed by the job and lacking in ability to project himself as a world leader which in recent decades has been Americas position.  The Europeans and its European Union are unwilling to face the realities of its failed and costly socialist system, regroup and assume responsibility for dealing with Russia's advance into the Ukraine.  This is one fight that America should remain well clear of pa