On Wordle #256, and Day 6 of Russian Attack on Ukraine

With a bit of luck, Wordle game #256 looks easy...

Wordle 256 4/6

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It's Day 6 of the Russian Attack on Ukraine. More sanctions and actions came, but it's largely cosmetic. Apple stops selling in Russia. The satellites donated by Elon Musk arrives Ukraine. As expected, various crypto exchanges refuses to ban Russia from bypassing financial sanctions from the West, those money-wrapping spineless wankers. Ukraine's courageous president signs the application to officially request EU membership. It's largely cosmetic because Putin keeps pushing on, with military convoy stretching 40 miles long, shelling and attacking Kharkiv, the second-largest city of Ukraine. 

Could the help - any help - from West come soon enough to rescue Kyiv, its capital from being overtaken by Russia? The courage of Ukrainians, both average citizens and its leaders, is on full display, standing their ground to fight in whatever ways they can. 

It's shameful that the world does not do more to beat back naked aggression like this. It harks back to the First Gulf War when Bush Sr. launched the shock-and-awe lightning campaign to beat back Saddam Hussein's military incursion into Kuwait, pushing Iraq back to its own borders. Somehow I doubt that Joe Biden has the tenacity to launch any military campaign. Heck, if Biden has his ways, had Obama not made the executive decision in that war room, SEAL Team 6 would not even have taken out Osama bin Laden. Given how desperate Biden had withdrawn from Afghanistan (in the chaotic retreat last year), it's almost certain that Biden would not want to start another war for US. This is of course music to Putin's ears, betting that Biden would just use words and more words, talking people to death, but doing nothing else. And so, now is as good a time as ever to do annexation, Biden be damned.

Perhaps it comes as no surprise at all that the approval rating of Joe Biden is so low, even if he's barely one year into office, the official honeymoon period.  

I always thought, if I were born in war time, I would rather go to the frontline to fight than to hide in a hole, just to survive.

I pray for Ukraine.