FROM HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI … RUSSIAN ROULETTE

“WE ARE ABSOLUTELY sure that the high-grade weapons NATO has supplied to Ukraine will not be used to launch an attack that Russia cannot ignore.”

The NATO spokeswoman, who uttered these words in reply to a question about a forlorn Ukraine launching the kind of long-range strike on Russia that would demand direct retaliation by the Kremlin against NATO, said that even though Ukraine was struggling on the battlefield, losing thousands of troops and desperate to get NATO into the war directly, it would never do a thing like that. “Actually, we believe Ukraine would rather see its territory overrun and the country destroyed than do anything so provocative. We have a computer that says so. I have seen the readouts. For that matter, the same readouts say Ukraine won the war back in March. So we’re all really just waiting for the Russians to realize they have lost.”