Blurter.

Joe Biden blurts. It's who he is.

Remember when? he used his blurting powers for good, informing the press that, of course, the Obama administration supported equal rights for gay people, in terms of equitable marital recognition from which so many of our family-based government and business-based tax, insurance and benefit plans were based?  (Not to mention the obstacles to privately contracting for all situations that family law assumed a heterosexual default.)

Well Joe Biden just blurted again.

Not for good this time.  Like will smith, he just couldn't control himself.  He sank to the temptation and made an already bad situation worse.

If you think you are dealing with a crazy man -- one paranoid, in a country with a raw background of late -- why would you provoke?  Do he still have that much faith in American military muscle to back up his mouth?

Joe blurted.  People heard him.  Zelensky is starting to understand the boundaries the American Congress and President Biden have set -- moral support, limited financial support, limited refugee help, no active military presence or sales of weaponry, etc.

Zelensky, I think, is starting to come down off his actors' high, and realize the fight he is in.  

That's for the best, in my humble opinion.  Would make crafting a workable resolution for the future possible.  Joe and his people are not going to successfully assassinate Vladmir Putin or catch him hiding in a hole in the ground.  Contrast with Hillary Clinton who will be remembered for her highest political role:  Secretary of State, nothing further, just like Madeline Albright was recently given the flags-at-half-mast treatment in many places nationally, but will be remembered in history as the Sec. of State whose term in office immediately preceded the 2001 successful attack on New York and Washington DC in which America had ample warnings in "trial run" terrorist attacks but was caught off guard and defenseless that day.

Nice leave.

Right now, Albright is remembered as a cultural curiosity:  the first woman in the role, the first important Democratic woman, besides his wife, to speak out publicly in defending Bill Clinton when his scandal made headlines, in the years before the 2001 attack on America.

But the work stands.  The foreign policy showboating that means a lot of meetings, and photo ops, and phone calls and... showboating, but with international decisions still seemingly being made at the point of a gun, or drop of a bomb.

Somebody misread the room, and mislead Ukraine, when they thought America could be sold so soon again on sacrificing for poor policy choices to destabilize foreign governments in our own evangelical business and foreign policy efforts. 

I've always said you can see trouble ahead when you task military men with missionary work under a chivalrous banner of protecting another nations' women and government.  Let it be.  

Take care of your business at home.