It's Thursday, June 30, 2022.

I'm Albert Mueller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events

from a Christian worldview. This is as you

might expect the last edition of the briefing for this season and we'll be

back August the 1st with the new season but nonetheless there are some big issues we simply have to

confront before the season comes to an end we need to look backward just a bit and

forward just a bit to put ourselves into placement as we head into the summer.

Now one of the things on our mind in recent months of course has been Ukraine

and the Russian invasion of Ukraine and we have talked week by week about the big worldview issues that are involved in that

war, but now we're looking at something just a little bit different.

As we're looking at the summer, we are also looking at the fact that this just can't go on last year. the as Stein's rule in the United States, named for Herb Stein, the former chairman of the

President's Council of Economic Advisors in the Nixon administration.

Herb Stein's law comes down to this.

If it can't last forever, it won't.

Well, as we're thinking about what can't last forever right now,

there are people who had counted on the fact that Russia can't last as long as Ukraine.

But over time, it is simply the fact that the stronger nation is

likely to have the upper hand or in one sense the more determination and it's

hard to imagine that the Ukrainians are less determined than Russia, but Russia's autocratic

leader is after all an autocrat, and Vladimir Putin has to contend with no other authorities,

practically speaking in Russia, and his neighborhoods in his capital city

are not being besieged by Ukraine the way Ukraine's capital is being besieged, along

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