Though One Can Hardly Fault (Ukrainian President) Volodimir Zelensky From Making the Most of a Unique Opportunity to (However Briefly) Exit Ukraine & In the Process Secure Some More Much-Needed Moral Support/Military Help in the Ongoing Battle for His Cherished Homeland, U S President Joe Biden "Ought to Know Better" as Tolkien's &/Or Peter Jackson's Cinematic Take Upon 'The Lord of the Rings' Has Treebeard Woefully, Ruefully Intoning (As, in a Not Wholly Dissimilar Context, a Much Larger War for Middle Earth was About to Break Forth): Thus Publicly, Globally Sticking the Proverbial Borax in the Very Face of Russian President Vladimir Putin AIN'T LIKELY TO END WELL - & THAT'S PUTTING THINGS RATHER MILDLY!

Leaving Putin thus shamefully humiliated just ain't the way 'to win (any more) friends and influence people'!