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Russia Makes Gains
Logistics bottlenecks and Republicans will always wreck the best-laid plans.
As I told a friend in November 2016, shortly after Trump won the presidency, four years is potentially forever. He had been confidently telling me that four years was too little to “mess up America and the world.” My friend is a whiz at finances and business, but he didn’t get the secret sauce of logistics: right place, right time, LIFO, FIFO, etc.
Logistics is more than organizing trucks to deliver products to store shelves. Logistics is all about timing and understanding the caprice of timing. Knowing exactly when a customer wants (needs) your product and when no one wants it — so don’t lock up resources in produced goods no one wants — is something all marketers spend countless hours daily trying to figure out.
As a U.S. Army veteran, I learned that logistics can make or break any military operation. Both Russians and conservatives in America struggle to understand logistics. The refusal to fund Ukraine’s heroic effort to defeat cowardly Russia, which now almost seems to be a collaboration between Trump and his followers in Congress with the Kremlin, is today bogged down in the minutiae of logistics.
Good logistics requires investing in things that, at first glance, might seem unnecessary, but over time…
