How do the Russians invade Ukraine? Answer: They "rush in"!

And if you can't joke about the possibility of World War III, what can you joke about?
I could certainly write a good deal about Ukraine, or Special Counsel John Durham's latest court filings that leave no doubt the "Russia Collusion" claims were a political dirty trick of the Hillary Clinton campaign, which illegally spied on the Trump campaign to try to find something to support those claims (and failed), or the indictment of Clinton Campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who lied about not representing the Campaign when "helpfully" pointing the FBI in Trump's direction based on a supposed connection to servers at the ALFA Bank (even the FBI wasn't dumb enough to believe that yarn), etc. etc. BUTT...
this isn't really the place for it. I have written extensively about politics elsewhere (not recently because I'm too busy, and under another name than "Web-Ed," of course) and if anyone's interested...you may already have read some of my articles without knowing it was me

. So no need to get into all that here (the rest of you feel free to dissect these issues here on the board if you want to, although I think
O. T. Katie is certainly a lot more fun to talk about!) except...I'd like to try to put your mind at ease about one thing,
B00m, and all joking aside, that's Ukraine.
Although both sides are playing a dangerous game here, in the end whoever is giving Joe Biden his orders doesn't intend to go to war with Russia over Ukraine, and Russia (Putin) doesn't really want to fight a war in Ukraine either, even though it would certainly defeat the Ukrainian forces. Putin wants certain guarantees, like access to Ukrainian natural resources and its warm-water port, and most of all
that Ukraine will not join NATO. All his military build-up is his way of putting pressure on NATO to give him these guarantees. The outline of a deal for peace is very clear: NATO and the U.S. and Ukraine agree to keep the latter out of NATO and guarantee continuing Russian influence in Ukraine (and that warm-water port!), and Russia agrees not to invade Ukraine or formally annex it. In the end, a deal along those lines is very likely, unless before that happens some idiot decides to provoke a war for no good reason.
I believe the only reason we don't have such a deal yet is the same reason the "Biden" administration has been over-hyping the danger of a Russian invasion: they need some sort political win for old Brandon. Right now, 56% of the American people can't name one thing Brandon has gotten right, and whether their assessment is correct or not, it's a big problem for him. What to do about it? Pretend we're on the brink of war, then negotiate the obvious settlement I suggest above, and then claim a great victory for Brandon, who was memorably characterized by former Defense Secretary Robert Gates as being wrong on every foreign-policy issue for 40 years. (Brandon was against the raid that took out Osama bin Laden, remember).
If Russia, Ukraine, and the NATO countries will just sit down and negotiate in good faith, this whole thing could be settled without war in less than a month.
Now back to our regularly-scheduled commentary (sigh of relief all around).
