Ukraine Finally Gets Patriot Missile System

Russia’s response to this news will be — ah, who cares?!

B Kean
4 min readDec 14, 2022
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What will Moscow think? Let’s all thrust the middle finger into the air: who cares?

Maybe it’s not a rational reaction and maybe it is true that I am a “dolt,” as one not-so-bright reader recently called me because I had a hearty belly laugh over Russia’s collapsing society.

Maybe, we should care what Moscow’s response will be to the news today that the U.S. is about to approve sending a Patriot missile defense system but to be honest, f*** ’em. I am fed up with what Moscow cares about today because tomorrow it will be something entirely different.

I apologize for the brashness but as each day passes and more missiles land in Ukraine, more civilians find themselves living in cold, dark conditions. Each time we, the collective West, hold back a bit, Putin’s machine of death remains operational — it doesn’t get stronger, it just lives to kill another day.

The approval is likely to come later this week and could be announced as early as Thursday, said three officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision is not final and has not been made public. Two of the officials said the Patriot will come from Pentagon stocks and be moved from another country overseas…

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B Kean

The past holds the answers to today’s problems. “Be curious, not judgmental,” at least until you have all the facts. Think and stop watching cable news.