On Wordle #265, and Ukraine siege continues...

I don't like a game that's predicated more on luck...

Wordle 265 6/6

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But I guess sometimes that's what happens, that some combinations of letters can make up more words that one can conjure.

The outrage in the Russian attack on Ukraine continues. The world continues to talk, though there are some traction for actions. The House has passed a bill that includes aids to Ukraine. That is as it should be. What I find unacceptable, are people like Ilhan Omar and Cori Bush, two of the far-left Squad members, voting against the Russian oil embargo by US, with weak argument to support their contrarian stance, which is really more about peacocking around to show that they are "brave" enough to vote against what their Democrats' leadership and colleagues are going for. In one word, they have no moral standing or courage to do what's right, since they are only concerned about being woke.  Pathetic.

Another news story that stood out today, was the foolish Polish proposal to try to aggrandize their standing by making the bold claim to donate all their MiG-19 fighter jets to Ukraine...but there's a catch. Instead of delivering the fighter jets to Ukraine, as Ukraine has so desperately needed, the Poles instead proposed to send those planes to the US military base in Germany first, and then have the Americans and NATO be responsible for the actual delivery. More remarkably, the Poles made this announcement without even alerting the Americans or the Germans first. What the hell were they thinking?

In a way, I can understand the rationale behind the Polish proposal. They want to do the right thing by the Ukrainians, win some goodwill from the world, at the same time, they also want to take advantage of the potential of upgrading their own fleet since the Americans have shown certain inclination of backfilling the Polish fleet with F-16 (much more advanced than old Soviet MiG planes). It's, like, hitting two birds with one stone. 

Problem is, Poland doesn't want to bring the Russian wrath on its doorstep. So, the Poles want to offload the old MiG planes to NATO/US, and draw them deeper into the conflict, thereby deflecting Russia's attention on Poland (at least for the time being). But, how could the Poles have conceived such a month, committing NATO and US military base, with even consulting with them first? This is most impolitic, to put it mildly. If I were the Biden administration, I would be pissed at the naiveté of those amateurish and cowardly Poles, though one should not be too critical to Poland since they have done their part by taking in hundreds of thousands of refugees from Ukraine readily which, on its own right, is a commendable deed.

More foreign companies are quitting Russia. The question now is, how long will China be able to prop up Russia in a sinking ship? I can't wait to see Xi and CCP eat their own words and drop Russia like a hot potato.