OBSERVANCES
In 1918, just before the American Doughboys began to arrive in force in France in WWI, the German High Command made the decision for an all-out attack to win the war.
As the doughboys raced through Paris to get to the Marne River in time to prevent disaster, American Commander, John J. Pershing, stopped at the tomb of the Marquis de Lafayette said “we have come to pay our debt.” Almost 150 years before, Lafayette had brought the aid from France that enabled the American Colonies to win the Revolutionary War.
In almost the same circumstances, Vladimir Putin is trying an all-out push to defeat Ukraine before all the aid from the United States arrives on the battlefield. Those armaments are being raced by plane, roads and trains to get in Ukrainian hands to prevent disaster.
Russia cares nothing about killing as many Ukrainians as possible or about their own lives. Life is so bad for the ordinary Russian citizen across its vast territory that they drink themselves to death with Vodka at an early age to escape the bleakness.
One of the few countries the average lifespan is shrinking rather than expanding. Our aid is arriving late due to politics but as Churchill said “America always does the right thing after they have tried everything else.”
