The home for William Lehman's work on Substack. Blog posts, short story and novel release announcements, and anything else that grabs my attention. With occasional guest posts.
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The Search for Relevance
Putin dreams of himself as a new Napoleon, but one who succeeds in uniting Europe. Not just regaining the old territory of the Soviet Union but going beyond that, to fulfil Stalin’s dreams of all of Europe, and eventually, all of the world...
Enemy Actions
Ian Flemming once commented, in a Bond book that “Once is coincidence, Twice is happenstance, the third time, it’s enemy action.” Let’s talk about some of that.
Dinner tonight will be Pulled Smoked Pork, you know where the booze is, please...
Intelligence of All Sorts
The photo is a Kilo II moored to a Don II submarine tender at the St Petersburg Naval Shipyard, with an Akula in the docks behind her. Our “Keeper” thought I was taking a shot of the WWII Submarine war memorial that you can see in the foreg...
Internationale Idiots
“The Internationale” was the first national anthem of the Soviet Union, (Replaced in 1944, in a very “Animal Farm” move, by something more “dedicated to the Soviet Union”) It was the anthem of Communism everywhere, until it became too obvio...
The Return of What is Truth
What is truth? Asked the modern Pilate, and washed his hands.
Back in May of 2025 I asked what-is-truth (link to the original) and it’s been a periodic theme here. I’m coming back to it again today.
Dinner is Greek meatballs, recipe prov...
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