It's Tuesday, March 1st, 2022. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily

analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Ukrainians continue to fight a brave fight against Russian invaders in a war that seems to have a new chapter every few minutes,

but on the other hand continues far beyond what most

people including many friendly Western observers of Ukraine had expected. The

Russian forces are massive, formidable.

We're looking at something like 200,000 land troops.

Not all of them deployed in Ukraine yet, but the expectation, even

of most Western military authorities and intelligence services have been that the

Ukrainians would be rather quickly crushed and kee the capital city very

quickly captured that just hasn't happened now in the fog of war there are many

developments that have already taken place

we don't know about but what we do know is that what we are seeing right now is a

profile in courage on the part of the Ukrainians and that starts at the top with the Ukrainian political leader Vladimir Zelensky, who, when it was

suggested that he should evacuate and leave the capital, said, I need ammunition, ammunition not a ride that is likely to go down as

one of the great lines of political and moral courage of our generation over the

course of the next several days there will be no doubt a great deal for us to consider from Ukraine

But the main thing we need to know right now is that the fight goes on that the Ukrainians are demonstrating

remarkable courage and that Vladimir Putin has done what by

some accounts he was trying not to do which is to unify European and Western

resolve we see this in the fact that the Germans who've been very reluctant

to spend much on their own national security much less pass weapons on to others. They are

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