"Is Ukraine Going Rogue Or Did It Attack Russia’s Early Warning Systems With American Approval?"

That was a question raised in the June 2024 post "In An Historic First, The Radars That Russia Uses To Detect Incoming Nuclear-Tipped Ballistic Missiles Have Been Attacked" which somehow spun out-of-control and into this outro [into the outro? don't mind me, I'm just typing]:

....Ukraine is not going rogue.*

The Zelensky administration knows that doing so would cost them their power, their country and probably their lives. And the example of the strikes on the Russian oil refineries is quite possibly misdirection. It's likely that there are political or geo-political, strategic or grand-strategic reasons for wanting lower gasoline supplies.

Nobody I've heard or read commenting on the subjects is in a position to either: 1) know, or 2) if they do know, speak honestly on the matter.
*Unfortunately for me, when Alaska Governor and Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin published her memoir it was titled "Going Rogue: An American Life" which I misread as "Going Rouge...".

Then a few years later there were the memes of Vladimir Putin in make-up and even though the most famous one doesn't show the blusher on his cheeks, just some work on the eyes and lips, it's what comes to mind when I see 'going rouge' and from there it descends into into a philosophical unseriousness, not really suitable for a haute blog like Climateer Investing: 

Here's one with the deputy chair of the Security Council of Russia that does have a bit of color in the cheeks:

Both images via the Daily Mail in 2017 when memes were outlawed and only outlaws had memes.

So who knows about this nuclear stuff, all the world's a stage...and all the players hide behind theatrical makeup to help portray their chosen characters when they step into the limelight.

Or something.