Cut to the Chase

Anne Applebaum gets it so well that I’m just going to quote her big finish:

It is remarkable enough that the United States is setting out to undertake the invasion of a nation, the destruction of a regime and the liberation of a people. But to do this with only one real military ally, with much of the world against it, with a war plan that is still, by necessity, in flux days before the advent, with an invasion force that contains only one fully deployed heavy armored division — and to have, under these circumstances, the division’s commander sleeping pretty good at night: Well, that is extraordinary.

A victory on these terms will change the power dynamics of the world. And there will be a victory on these terms.

What will the result look like? Hell if I know — and you don’t, either.