The pope says we should raise the white flag and negotiate with putin.
It’s a bright sunny day, so we will run for hours.
Wear and tear on our HOKAs after a zillion miles on Kyiv concrete.
Donald and Viktor met in Mar-a-Lago on March 8 to discuss Christian nationalism, peace in Europe and blocking military assistance to Ukraine. Both men looked, er, stout.
David from The New York Times tries to scare us with a story from last October1.
The use of the word “seemed” in the title and subtitle is misleading.
Recall the conclusion on Day 14 that what would happen next was unavoidable2.
What David leaves out in the article is that Team USA’s response to Putin’s use of a tactical nuclear weapon would have been to obliterate Russia’s military using non-nuclear weapons.
And, finally, Russia reportedly blew up two Patriot missile batteries outside of Pokrovsk. Ouch.
Biden’s Armageddon Moment: When Nuclear Detonation Seemed Possible in Ukraine. For a few weeks in October 2022, the White House was consumed in a crisis whose depths were not publicly acknowledged at the time. It was a glimpse of what seemed like a terrifying new era (The New York Times, March 9, 2024)