There's no such thing as a winnable war
It's a lie we don't believe anymore

We share the same biology, regardless of ideology
But what might save us, me and you
Is if the Russians love their children too

So sang Sting.

He was – I think he still is – a marvelous singer. But the naïve notions expressed in that 1985 song are long past their sell-by date.

Start with the Russians.

Vladimir Putin firmly believes his war of conquest against Ukraine is winnable. Russians who love their children have no say in the matter. As for Ukrainian parents, roughly 20,000 of their children have been abducted into Russa to be raised as Russians.

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Last week, young Israeli soldiers on patrol in Gaza encountered and eliminated Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas commander who plotted and implemented the invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and the brutal massacre that followed.

This long-anticipated milestone was a significant battle won in a war that will not soon end. To understand why, you need to understand who Mr. Sinwar was and the cause for which he fought.

His goal was not to force Israel to end the "occupation" of Gaza because, as a matter of incontestable fact, all Israelis departed Gaza in 2005.

Instead, his goal was to destroy Israel "from the river to the sea" and then replace it with a theocracy – an emirate of the coming caliphate.

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Last week, decent people mourned the 1,200 victims of the pogrom waged by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7, 2023 – the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.

Last week, decent people remembered the 254 men, women and children – Americans among them – dragged by Hamas terrorists into the tunnels of Gaza. Sixty-four are believed to remain alive despite the torture inflicted upon them.

But I want to spend a few minutes talking about the indecent people – the anti-Zionists who last week celebrated the mass murders, rapes, and abductions.

On city streets and university campuses, they chanted "Globalize the intifada!" and "Hey hey, ho ho! Israel has got to go!"

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You've probably never heard of the Chagos Islands and I'm sorry to be the one putting them on your to-worry-about list.

I'm doing so because this remote archipelago in the Indian Ocean includes Diego Garcia which hosts a British-American military base that is strategically vital for gathering intelligence and projecting air and naval power into both the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific.

Last week, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer agreed to give the Chagos Islands to the tiny Republic of Mauritius.

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There's a tiny barren island off the coast of Maine that both the U.S. and Canada claim. If Washington and Ottawa wanted to settle the long-simmering dispute over Machias Seal Island they could send diplomats to sit down at a "negotiating table" and come up a compromise or maybe even a "win-win solution."

That's how diplomacy works between civilized nations.

But that's not how diplomacy works between civilized nations and terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthi rebels of Yemen, or their patron: the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Nor is it how diplomacy works with the neo-fascist/neo-imperialist dictator of Russia, Vladimir Putin, or the Communist ruler of China, Xi Jinping.

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