“Today you should eat the veggies”, my Mom used to tell me when I was a kid, “If you do it, tomorrow I may give you a steak with potatoes.”
The elite in Moscow will take care of Putin, whether the Russians will raise their bloody banner in Kyiv, or the Ukrainians will send them where they sent the Russian Navy ship couple of weeks ago (GFU and jump off the cliff). So the pundits in Washington, and the burbs in Virginia, do say. Putin has lost the war, either way, they insist, it’s only a matter of time.
Difficult to disagree, especially with the latter notion. Everything is a matter of time, and even time itself is a matter (unless one is a hermit in a well prepped Altai bunker dealing with the tranquilized-by-fear in Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome, and Washington).
Time is what the Kremlin dictator has despite all the sanctions and overwhelming verbal support of Kyiv coming from the enlightened West. Putin is a murderer, Mr. Biden said when asked a few months ago. Putin is a war criminal, the former basement dweller insisted today.
For once, Mr. Biden is correct, but it took him and his mighty NATO allies exactly 21 days to figure it out. Not without difficulty if we recall the multiple arms twisting. Remember Germany, Italy, Hungary, and others?
Ukraine paid with thousands of killed and starved to death women, children, and elderly, not to mention the destruction of her cities and hamlets while waiting for the very free world and its White House leader to overcome disagreements and BUREAUCRATIC hurdles.
With the speed of a mortally wounded turtle, the mentally old and crippled West schlepped to its communal kitchen to (largely) serve Kyiv the molecular cuisine instead of a steak!
No, I’m not a proponent of the NATO troops on the ground. Neither will I be in ecstasy seeing the NATO planes in the Ukrainian sky. (Honestly, when it comes to NATO I don’t think that outside of our, British and Canadian troops-any other “important” members of the military alliance can really fight! Definitely neither the Germans nor the French. Beer and wine suit them better than carbines and drones.)
I’m talking about the old Russian MIGs and the Patriot air defense systems and the heavy artillery that should have been delivered to Ukraine within the first week of the Russian invasion.
Please, don’t insult my intelligence when it comes to the NATO voting procedure and/or the logistics. Such a powerful military alliance (as it presents itself) should have been able to figure it out. Of course, only if it wasn’t scared to see the Russian war against Ukraine as a matter of urgency, and NOT a matter of time!
Going back to my Mom forcing me to eat vegetables. I hated them then and was too young to understand the long-term strategy. The only thing that came to my mind was “how about the veggies with the steak now.”