These article are off message from what the Diva usually posts, but she thinks they are worth reading at the present time.

From the Wash Post: Aiming to control Ukraine, Russia risks quagmire of foreign regime change. Moscow may be underestimating the difficulty of securing a nation with foreign-imposed regime change, according to scholars who have studied such scenarios.

From Thomas Friedman in the NY times: I See Three Scenarios for How This War Ends