It's Monday, March 28, 2022.

I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

The last few days have been very consequential in world history and of course ground zero has

been Ukraine but also Poland.

Ukraine's neighbor that is a full member of NATO and was host to the North Atlantic

Treaty Organization's leadership for a special conference that was called over the last several

days in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Huge developments took place there in Poland.

For one thing, the President of the United States veered off script at the end of the

event, leading to some confusion that may actually weaken

the Western Coalition but before we turn to President Biden's comments and to the

NATO meeting we need to understand that the NATO leaders were convening even as it became apparent that Russia is changing its strategy in Ukraine.

Now, why is it doing so?

Well, because its military has proved itself to be stunningly in effectual in taking the major cities of Ukraine.

It becomes increasingly clear that even as Russia had amassed an army of about 200,000 soldiers.

By the way, it now turns out that might be about two-thirds of the available ground

troops to Russia at any given time.

That's a rather stunning realization.

But even as Russia had put together this massive land army

and had put together all the armaments with missiles and aircraft,

bombers and all the rest, it turned out

that the Russian forces have been nowhere near as

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