The Biden administration appears to have outsourced responsibility for crafting its battlefield strategy in Ukraine to a nexus of pinheads with dubious backgrounds, situated thousands of miles from the frontline and its gruesome realities.

Almost three years later, with a generation of Ukrainians lost to the proxy war’s meat grinder, the authors of these battle plans are likely still pecking away at their laptops somewhere in the musty halls of academia.

'As the world goes, is only a question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must' — Melian dialogue, Peloponnesian war, 416 BC.