A panel of experts was going on about the state of the war between Ukraine and Russia. Two of them are, I guess, optimistic about Ukraine being able to hold its own, with help from the U.S. and other countries. The other was Donnie Downer and pretty much saying Ukraine has already lost. The writing is on the wall, he maintains—Russia has 10 times the fire power, five times the population. It’s a battle of attrition. Russia will do to Ukraine what it did to Finland in 1940.
One of the more rosy-sounding panelists said that 2025 will be a better year on the battlefield for Ukraine, taking for granted, sadly, that the fucking war will still be going on in 2025.
Putin sits back, with beady eyes and a face betraying coldness and derision, and the rest of the world just sits, paralyzed to do anything besides wait for the other shoe to drop.
Making war is the one thing we humans excel at. It seems there will always be the next megalomaniac to deal with.
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