
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


