— Satire
I have a solution to the end of the war between Russia and Ukraine.
It is so simple I am somewhat surprised I did not think of it before.
Nor have I seen it in print.
OK.
On to the dénouement.
Why cannot Vladmir Putin, leader of Russia, say, as then POTUS and Commander in Chief George W Bush did to American troops from aboard the aircraft carrier U S S Abraham Lincoln in June, 2003: “Mission accomplished”?
Before the rotten vegetables start coming my way, hear me out.
Let’s examine matters more closely.
How did this war start?
As the result of one man.
And it can end with one man.
It started because of flawed thinking on the part of Vladimir Putin, leader of Russia.
On February 24, 2022 (of course it started before then, but probably no one knows exactly when, so we will use the date when Ukraine was invaded), to be precise.
He thought (to the best of Western intelligence) he could sweep into Kyiv and replace the…
