There is something going on in Ukraine. Who is responsible, how widespread it is, and to what extent this is manufactured versus organic is the real question.

I have a whole team of remote coworkers who fled the country when the war broke out and are now living in Poland and Romania. The school that one of my coworker's children attended was destroyed by mortars. I asked her about exactly this and she sent me before and after pictures.

There is a real feel of "Wag the Dog" in Ukraine. But there are also real humans with real lives who are being impacted.