In the game of Tic Tac Toe, if a player claims the center square, they are usually the winner

Exceptions do apply but to lose when you own the center means you are new to the game and a beginner

On TV for many years Hollywood Squares used to feature Paul Lynde in the center square

Many government ideas, politicians, and celebrities were skewed by his snarky answers seemingly formed from thin air

Now in real life and time the non-comedian, no nonsense Vladimir Putin controls the center of the Ukraine Tic Tac Toe game

He’s rolled his armies into Ukraine to take back the territories he wants to claim

Figuring he can outlast Ukraine’s limited fighting forces he can keep sending soldiers to the front lines

With his much ballyhooed counter offensive now mired in the muck, Zelensky is out of warm bodies, ammo, and money or so he whines

Hoping for a vertical three in a row in the Tic Tac Toe game, Zelensky had not counted on the American people to push back

Even more so, he was worried about being yesterday’s news due to the Hamas on Israel attack

Since Biden occupies the top right square, Zelensky hoped he could goad the dementia poster boy into more American aid

But he left DC with only promises and a lot of yesterday’s weapons to continue his bloody crusade

But secure in the whispered knowlege the Senate would approve the additional spending

By tying the corrupt payola to American troop pay raises and not give a nickel to the border war they should be defending

Secretly wishing to have Biden to commit American troops to his frontlines and turn his war into the next Viet Nam

Discovering quickly the House didn’t want its own troops to suffer through more years of Russian napalm

In 1983 the movie War Games centered on a character able to crack the main computer that controlled the military nuclear weapons

By supplying the right code the world would be destroyed in a matter of seconds

The horrified character convinced the computer to solve its issues with a game of Tic Tac Toe

The computer quickly realized the game was unwinnable when the center is occupied even with all systems on go

Perhaps its time for Zelensky to realize he doesn’t own the center square and is fighting an unwinnable war

He needs to begin negotiations, rewrite the Minsk agreement, and quit begging the US before the fed up Ukrainian citizens show him the door