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The Good News: Seems 97% of Russia’s Army Is Now in Ukraine
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal the other day, Russia has apparently deployed 97 percent of its army to Ukraine.
This is good news if you are a military planner for, say, Ukraine and NATO because it shows us that the ineptitude of the “great Russian army” wasn’t a myth — it’s being sustained by the troops that had been held back in reserve, too.
The bad news is that this is the only good news we have to report and this isn’t going to change much for what I fear will be a long time. An instance of genuinely good news would be if Putin woke up and decided that he made a huge mistake.
Distraught, he goes into his cavernous, underground shower, writes in shaving cream on the mirror, “Please forgive me,” and vanishes under there somewhere (rumor has it that Putin has constructed an underground world to survive a nuclear war with his wife and kids.) That “good news,” though, won’t be brightening up our days any time soon.
Instead, we are going to have to find bursts of happiness in learning that 97 percent of the mighty, Russian war machine is now engaged on the eastern front in Ukraine and still no major breakthrough has been made.
