Ukraine

 It's time for the United States and NATO to step up against Putin's aggression. It appears that the Russian army is bogged down in its attempt to control Kiev. The real front is along Ukraine's coast, from Mariupol to Odesa. 

I suggest sailing the USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group from the Eastern Mediterranean through the Bosporus into the Black Sea, in a show of freedom of navigation. This would, in my opinion, provide a huge distraction to Russia's Black Sea fleet, in particular dissuading the Russians from conducting amphibious assault operations along the coast of Ukraine.

3/24/22 My friend Bill Everett posts this on his blog: The war in Ukraine is not only a struggle over autocracy versus democracy (and not simply over the value of national sovereignty). It is a struggle over the degree to which Christian churches will align themselves with nationalisms and imperial versions of “Christendom.”