A Brief Note on the Ukraine War

 

About the time Donald Trump was sworn in, I saw a surge of stories about the Ukrainian war saying that Russia's economy was in shambles, that the ruble was dropping, inflation was getting out of control, manpower shortages were rampant, etc. etc.

I would love for these stories to be true, but color me skeptical.  

They sounded very much like stories aimed to an audience of one geared to encouraging him to hang in there and victory would be his.