The Ukrainians got slapped down a little too hard for the missile incident. Maybe the brighter ones will understand they were never more than pawns, no matter how many Ukrainian flags are on suburban lawns.

The cabal running the hegemon is not going anywhere near total war. This has always been "to the last Ukrainian."

Unfortunately for the West, the modern world is built on fossil fuels and the mother of all reality checks is in the mail.

It might be politics all the way down, but it's economics all the way up. Like the head versus the gut.

The gut decides, the head advises.