That’s the thing with the AOW, there are so many wonderful insights like the “Know yourself” one in first chapter.

You make a good point that Putin may have oversold himself, after all we (USA) believed their military was really strong and we’ve come to find out that’s a shell of what it was. I think our military is shocked.

Xi is definitely re-evaluating his plans regarding the world order and how Taiwan fits into his grand scheme. Germany has decided to strengthen it’s arms and I can see Japan/S. Korea/Taiwan following suit because they saw how a “friendly” to China invaded a sovereign nation under pretense.

These are interesting but sad times we live in.