it's Monday morning, and over the weekend, Vladimir decided to increase the blood pressure of everyone in the world by saying he set up a special mode of combat duty of the deterrence forces. That's implying he's ready for nuclear war, although it's not really nuclear war, its nuclear invasion. But what's the point of invading anywhere, if you just going to nuke it? So while the world tries to reassure each other, he's just kidding, Right, guys? One of the few world leaders that could probably take him aside and have a word is being very quiet, too quiet. But today the president of China, Xi Jinping, has decided to write to me. Dear Keith, I was going to write to you, but then something else came up. So I'm afraid I'm going to have to abstain. Sorry. Get back to you later, dear. She The real problem with being a world leader is that every now and then you have to lead. It's not enough to do nothing and call that leading. A friend of mine and I were talking about neutral countries in the last war, like Ireland and Switzerland, and he brought up the quote from Desmond Tutu. If it element has its foot on the tail of the most, and you say you were neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality if the rest of the world in Ukraine can manage to navigate the next couple of days and weeks without the world ending. But with China doing nothing, you will not be is appreciated by the world is the leader, as you once were. And maybe, just maybe, we'll start to look at how much better China would look with a little bit of democracy mixed in there.

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