Barack Obama's Diary: Putin's Puttin' Sun Tzu's Art into Action

Dear Diary:  The more I have been brushing up my knowledge of Sun Tzu's Art of War, the more concerned I have become that these are the  very techniques  that Putin has been using against me. Sun Tzu says “Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”  This is exactly what Putin has done in Ukraine.
Sun Tzu again: “Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”  I,would keep my plans dark and impenetrable as night, if I had any plans. Valerie Jarrett's ideas are as close as I get to a strategy.  But enough about me.