Let’s game this out. — Ukraine is not likely to give Russia the boot anytime soon. Yes, they will have some victories. And they will push back against Russia here and there. No one with good intelligence from the ground in Ukraine believes that either side will score a decisive win. White House officials admitted…

Nobody thinks of you the way you do. — Long ago, I was just starting a new job. I was new to customer service and managing support requests. I was new to talking with customers on the phone as a front line employee. I was new to the paperless office. I can recall making what I thought was a…

…to people who can’t or won’t change anyway. — There was a time in my much younger life when I hated one or more persons. I think at one point, it was a sort of searing, visceral hate. There were things that I dreamed about doing to the other person, but could never bring myself to do him or…

Every headline about the war makes me wonder what they’re not telling us. — For weeks I thought it was all just posturing. For weeks, I figured that Biden would work out some sort of diplomatic solution. I could not help but think of every headline about the buildup of troops at the border of Ukraine as a way of making us feel more…

Early Ukraine victories won’t matter. We need to get clear about how Russia defines victory. — Europe is uneasy with the war in Ukraine. They don’t seem to share the same confidence that Ukraine will win the war as Americans do. We sit over here and talk about Ukraine’s successes on the battlefield like they’re predictors of future outcomes. That’s a problem. We’re comfortable over here…

Peace will be hard to find if information about the war is not free. — I don’t share the belief that it would be a good thing for Ukraine to win its war with Russia. I don’t have enough information to form an opinion. I believe that our media systems are designed with that purpose in mind. I don’t know who is at fault for…

Maybe Germany doesn’t want to be next. Maybe they prefer free trade. — We’re almost a year into a terrible, brutal war in Ukraine. Since the start of the war, Ukraine has made regular, periodic, and predictable appeals for more hardware, more ammo, and more missiles. And finally, some of the biggest arms manufacturers in the western hemisphere have reluctantly agreed to send…

To end the war in Ukraine, solve the problems that gave rise to the war first. — My opinions about the war in Ukraine didn’t rise out of the vacuum of space. They come from decades of research and introspection. I am a student of human behavior. I’ve tested what I’ve learned thousands of times. I’ve seen studies that prove what I’ve read. …

The Tea Party leaves in Congress are not happy. — I’m a lefty progressive and I have to admit, I have been shocked, just shocked, to see how liberals have embraced the war in Ukraine. They want to fund Ukraine to the hilt. They want to send advanced weapons to Ukraine. They want to defeat Russia. But they have no…