The forced removal of Transgender Persons from the US Army begins. This isn't about readiness, ethics, or morality. It's about ego and political posturing. Removing American troops from the NATO pool only aids our adversaries.

Moody pic taken on the way to a Munich Christmas market. Small, walkable, pedestrian centric, centers of culture are more important than brutalist car centric economic output (Berlin).

But Greece is expensive and uninviting since they don't use the latin script. Then he showed me pictures from his vacation to the Black Sea. It struck a nerve so, I've been in Constanta since June. Picking up the language was quite easy. It's just really old Spanish.

For anyone who doesn't believe me, here's a picture I took at the Dec 1 "unification day" parade.

Pic of the interior of said defensive mountain pass garrison. It's in Bran, as in, Bran Stoker.