Dear Diary: I'm pumped up after my courageous stand against Vlad Putin and his invasion of Ukraine. ""There will be a cost for any intervention Ukraine" I warned him, my voice ringing with conviction. I am at my best at times like this, devising briliiant military strategies , drawing on the ancient principles of Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli and the great warrior Presidents Washington and Eisenhower. When Secretary Hagel called and asked what I wanted to do to deal with the thousands of Russian troops now in Ukraine, I quoted to him the inscrutable Sun Tzu: "Appear strong when you are weak and appear weak when you are strong...." I don't have a clue what it means, but that's now Hagel's problem. But enough about me....