In Ukraine and the Middle East, mighty Russia and America are stuck in the quagmire not knowing how to get out.  They are losing the support of their own people too.  It’s “the same old, same old” arrogance repeated by super powers time and time again in history.   It’s like the tragicomedy of Goliath killed by a shepherd boy David who had only a slingshot and a stone.  When do they ever learn?

In Ukraine inexpensive drones have replaced a slingshot and a stone against the giant Russia.  In Vietnam, who forced the remnants of Americans to escape by a helicopter from the rooftop of the American Embassy?  Initially the main force that drove mighty U.S. forces into the corner were the band of peasant guerilla fighters called Vietcong carrying only AK47 with the sandals made of old tires. They had no helicopter or Jet fighter.  The defeat of the mighty USSR forces in Afghanistan was an enactment of the same scenario: David against Goliath.  During the Second World War, before General MacArthur’s mighty U.S. military forces returned to the Philippines to reclaim the Philippine Islands, a brave band of Anti-Japanese men and women called “HUKS – Hukubalahap” constantly harassed the Japanese occupiers sapping the energy out of Japanese occupiers.

What I am trying to say is that determined people like David with a slingshot have more power in the end than the mighty Goliath.  Remember: America and Russia lost all their military engagements after the Second World War.  I feel sorry for American and Russian citizens who had to pay for the cost of such old -fashioned and expensive military misadventures in life and money.