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Here are the two ways this ends:
1) Putin realizes the war in unwinnable. He agrees to a peace treaty that abandons fundamental Russian demands. Problem for him is that embarrassment ends the regime.
2) Putin continues to send ill-trained Russian boys to get slaughtered along the Dnieper until the Russian people get tired of it and overthrown Putin.
The problem is it may take years for either of these to happen.
An addled and non-compos mentis Joe Biden only nominally remains the leader of the West. He initially refused to send offensive arms to Ukraine, and then offered to evacuate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. But now Biden 2.0 has blasted Putin as a killer, someone equivalent to the domestic semi-fascists he blasted in his Phantom of the Opera hate speech.
Biden has called for Putin’s removal. But until Putin’s demise, he wants still more sanctions against Russia. Yet it is hard to distinguish who is more detached from reality—Biden, suffering from cognitive decline as he talks to dead people and shakes the hands of ghosts, or a physically ailing and paranoid Putin. Meanwhile American Vice President Kamala Harris is rambling about a mythical American alliance with lunatic North Korea and the need to disperse federal help to storm-ravaged Florida on the basis of race.
The United States is sinking knee-deep into recession. Once again it is hit with spiraling fuel prices. No matter: Biden promises to borrow still more billions of dollars for Ukrainian aid as he drains the last drops of the strategic petroleum reserve ...
Wordsmithing at its finest! Another Victor Davis Hanson classic that one needs to read slowly to fully appreciate the damage from B!den and his puppet masters.
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