How many Americans are aware that a unit of the Florida National Guard is stationed in western Ukraine, of all places?  It's just a training mission, says the Pentagon.  Right. Training how to pick oranges.  This from the 'invincible' US military (I used to be a member) that got its backside whipped in Vietnam, Iraq and now Afghanistan.

No matter. The US, says President Biden, is geared up for a major fight in this obscure coal-mining region of the former Soviet Union.  US Navy vessels and aircraft now challenge Russia's Black Sea and Azov Sea borders.  NATO units probe Ukraine's air and land borders.

Washington is warning Moscow not to react to US military intrusions.  And, above all, not to invade Ukraine – which was part of historic Russia and the Soviet Union until the USSR fell apart after a US-engineered coup in Kiev that created western-orientated Ukraine.  Today, Ukraine is governed by a former TV comic whose career was financed by shady oligarchs and western interests.