before it realizes it’s an actual do or die situation? Too many so-called managers of this conflict think the situation can be tweaked to victory for Ukraine. And that a nuclear war is unthinkable. Just as with the Israeli conundrum, the Russians are facing the same existential issue. Odd. Yet Biblically poetic. Which should cause any Monday morning strategist to question Israel’s role in setting up the Ukraine pin a tail on the donkey. After all, an Israeli pre-planned destruction of Gaza would want to tie down the major Arab ally.