Every night, air strikes by missile, drone, and aerial bombs destroy several times the amount of Kiev assets as Kiev destroys in a week. Rational people know Ukrainian deaths are in vain.

There’s a heartbreaking graphic going around right now showing the almost microscopic changes that have occurred to the frontline of the war in Ukraine this year despite nonstop death and destruction of unfathomable horror the entire time.

US support is starting to waver, and while European governments are stepping up, their citizens are losing faith.

I closed my essay yesterday asking whether the premier Russian state television news program of the week, Vesti Nedeli with Dmitry Kiselyov, would report on Russia’s dramatic destruction during the night of 22-23 September of the Kremenchug airport, planes and pilot. This was the airport, the equipment and the personnel involved in a Ukrainian missile attack hours earlier that destroyed the staff headquarters building of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea. No, not a word about this was said on Russian television. All that we know from the Russian side is what is published in unofficial, one might say “underground,” private portals.

Early in the war, the West was shocked at the Russian military’s poor performance. But Moscow has fixed many errors and adapted on the battlefield.

The Bill Kristol-led group “Republicans for Ukraine” has released a TV ad to help drum up GOP support for Washington’s proxy war against Russia, and it’s surprisingly honest about what this war is really about: advancing US strategic interests using Ukrainians as sacrificial pawns.

The Army’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center has quietly started admitting Ukrainian Army soldiers who were wounded in combat, most of them American volunteers.

So far, the conflict has remained within manageable bounds for the international community, but the prospect of further conflagration is not far off.

Volodymyr Zelensky’s most important speech while in New York last week was not at the UN, but in a private room a few blocks away.

The ethical calculations are less clear than you might think.