One big peacing contest

Time to mobilize the women. Medics and air defense sent to the infantry. Failure of mobilization plans. Poroshenko's ceasefire proposition. Azovites complain of zombie brigades.

It's coming like the tidal flood

Beneath the lunar sway

Imperial, mysterious

In amorous array

Democracy is coming to the U.S.A

But is it coming to the 51^st state? I’ve written here enough of the piquant ambivalence of Trump’s possible policy towards Ukraine. But what of inside the country?

A fantastic photo from Zelensky’s recent visit with Trump. The ominous figure on the right in Andrii Yermak, the man who is probably more in charge of Ukraine than Zelensky himself. He is known for closely monitoring all of Zelensky’s interactions, and being deeply obsessed with the president’s ‘emotional demands’.