Time & Drones

So, I got a late start. I should write these blog posts in the afternoon, but I'm usually busy until night. Then, at night, when Joan is in bed, I get distracted by something I read, and I have to respond to it. Before I know it, it's past the midnight deadline for the particular blogging program. I've been missing too many writing sessions over the last several months, or I'm just getting tired of writing.

I'm so damn involved with resistance groups against the Trump administration that it takes valuable time away from my learning Spanish.  Now that I've started putting all of my 6,427 blogs from the last 20 years in Poland in chronological order, I'm missing too many writings. So much to do, too little time.

Meanwhile, Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine now has “cards” after the United States asked Kyiv to help protect American military bases in the Middle East from Iranian drones.

Speaking in an interview with Irish blogger Caolan Robertson released on Wednesday, March 11, Zelensky was asked whether Ukraine now has leverage in negotiations.

“Do you think Ukraine has the cards now?” the interviewer asked.

“I don’t know, you tell me,” Zelensky replied. “I think yes. But I think that we had them.”

“It’s like a good player,” he continued. “You can have good cards, but it’s not important to show everybody that you have these cards.”

“I think that a year ago we had them. I didn’t show them. But now everybody understands that we have,” he said.

On Monday, Zelensky said Ukraine has sent drone specialists and interceptor drones to help defend US military bases in Jordan from Iranian drone attacks. Zelensky said that the United States requested assistance last week and that a Ukrainian team departed the following day.