Thank you all for your passion and continued input into the most important event in my lifetime. Ukraine standing toe to toe with Russia, and repeatedly pushing their shit is in inflection point in the history of the world. Selfishly, for the US and the free world, it doesn't get any better. Ukraine, with our our substantial, and increasing support, is doing all of the heavy lifting while we cheer them on. God Bless Ukraine!!!
Surly, you rock! The amount of information from all the postings and links takes more time to read & digest than most people are awake every day.
Donny, who wandered into the middle of a hurricane, ..., sorry, dude. It is hard to boil down the last 6 months into a short answer on the present status. When progress is measured by tiny towns that Google Maps doesn't recognize, 10 miles from small towns nobody has ever heard of, 100 miles from any city that at best is vaguely familiar, it's hard to put the puzzle pieces together to make a picture that you don't even know what it looks like.
If one was left to make sense from only the mainstream media, I don't think that's possible. The educations, life experiences and backgrounds you have meld into a combination of factual information and insight that is unique and enlightening. Ironic that it's hosted on a college football message platform, where those same inputs lead to such drastic outputs.
I'm glad I played Risk as teen, and more glad that I played it with my kids. If you know nothing of history, the game teaches you of the pitfalls of attacking asia.
How a beaten Russia comes out of this, and what scorched earth they inflict along the way, are hard things to project. That is where we, and Ukraine, end up.
Onward, thru the fog!