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(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, THE WEEKEND EDITION FEB. 25-7, 2022) — There is only one story right now: Ukraine. News and commentary in cyberspace is never more overwrought than in moments such as this. The internet allows instantaneous updates faster than humans can give them. The analyses will be largely unreliable, as the “stakeholders” go into overdrive to spin the tale to their favor.

Are the comparisons being made the West justified, that what Russia’s mirror the events leading up to World War II, or does the East’s version make more sense, that says Vladimir Putin acted responsibly and defensively in aiding the eastern-most region in Ukraine, which asked for Russian assistance? And is any of it in America’s geopolitical interests?

THE PLANET doesn’t know. Neither does anyone else, including the two warring factions, each of which possesses only information it wants to issue and only a fraction of news it doesn’t want to hear.

We see no use in judgment at this early phase of events. Actually, we join ourselves with a statement issued by China: “We still hope that parties concerned will not shut the door to peace and engage instead in dialogue and consultation and prevent the situation from further escalation,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said Thursday during a regular press briefing in Beijing.

THE PLANET‘s most immediate concern? The current occupants of the White House. The Biden-Harris administration, which up to now had been driving America into the ground, seemed at least protected by the loyal opposition. Now, what choice does the GOP have but to back American action? For Biden-Harris, the tactical political “victory” of a “unified U.S. front” seems to be the extent to which they are able to see into the trap into which they have fallen.

Do you rest easy with how far Putin has outmatched, outmaneuvered, and outfoxed Geritol Joe and Gigglin’ Kam? Before this current mess:

• Inflation has skyrocketed
• The border crisis with Mexico has worsened
• Crime has risen sharply with the implementation of “restorative justice” practices.

• Iran is less than a year away from possessing its own nuclear weapon(s)
• The spending of countless trillions of paper money, driving the national debt and the economy over the falls in a barrel.

THE PLANET could go on and on.

Consider the Tale of the Tape: At the helm in Russia, a former KGB leader with ice in his veins. In America, a D.C. career politician, a flub-a-dub guy with more flip-flops than Daytona Beach during spring break and a clueless, giggling Veep who sucked her way up to the highest echelons the old fashioned way.

From Joe Battenfeld in the Boston Herald: “Biden already had botched the crisis months ago by appearing to give a pass to Putin for a ‘minor incursion’ into Ukraine and has been in damage control since.”

After the Ukraine situation reached the point of no return, Biden “threatened” Putin with “sanctions.” China will make up for most of the loss. Meanwhile, the U.S. buys much of its fuel from Russia. Can you say $5-a-gallon gas? Putin will take that deal any day of the week, including Doris Day. Biden threatening Putin is like the mall security cop threatening to press the squelch button against a teen thug who just shoplifted the booty.

Anyone missing Trump yet?

Trump’s a bully and a bullheaded businessman. He was and is a non-politician, never part of the petrified, poisonous atmosphere inside the D.C. Beltway. He was a rouge and a renegade — the type of guy who could do business in the new strategic realities of globalism and global politics. Exactly the kind of guy who could look Putin and Xi Jin Ping in the eye (of Kim Jung Un, for that matter) and deal. The message: “Let’s work together for the benefit of each of us, but whatever you do, DON’T FUCK WITH US.”

Anyone missing the Orange Man yet?

What? You decry the death of “democracy” and the rise of authoritarianism?

You’re decades too late. America chose its fate after we vaporized hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians — mostly women, children, and elderly — in two cities that were not military targets against a nation that knew it was defeated and was prepared to surrender because all was lost.

All THE PLANET can say is wait ’til November.

Have a great weekend, everybody.

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“All we can know is that we know nothing. And that’s the height of human wisdom”― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace”

LOVE TO ALL.

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