As Ukraine continues to press its attacks, it needs to constantly examine ways to adjust its strategy to make additional progress; hence the need to consider sub-options toward making further advances.
Consequently, we can suggest Ukraine’s leader team pose the following enhanced question: “Peel the Onion: What is Ukraine’s best option right now – Option B – Ukraine persist with current ground offensive w/adjustments, closely followed by Option D– Drone attacks; considering 1) Russian forces are well dug in, 2) both sides are taking heavy casualties, 3) Russia counting on West to push Ukraine to settlement, and 4) Ukraine lacks air-power to support ground offensive?”Again, it’s appropriate to focus on just these four considerations to reduce complexity in Ukraine’s eventual decision, when that ultimate moment arrives – despite there being many other possible considerations out there.
Ukraine’s leaders agreed to utilize the same yin and yang “bookends,”as posed by initial question to keep their minds focused against other immediate mental distractions. Bookends such as these are vital for preventing our fertile intuitive minds from wandering and losing concentration. We are mostly unaware of how powerfully valuable but foot-loose our intuition can be unless we can keep it properly focused on such occasions.
These are: “Ukraine wear down Russian resistance over time” – Unlikely while Putin’s in power;and “Ukraine to surrender country to Russia” – Politically unacceptable to Ukrainians or NATO. You will note the italicized detractors associated with these least likely options, which shows why they are not a particularly good idea for consideration. Even so, these same bookends will now hopefully nudge Ukrainian leaders’ intuitive thinking once more into high gear and come-up with a range of realistic sub-options – see ourLatest Worked Sub-Option Example.
Ukrainian leaders now set-about coming up with at least five plus realistic sub-options – AA thru FF – that would then be ready for some emotional distancing, Emotional distancing would allow them to take a couple of hours or more of quiet reflection, or even sleep on it, beforecoming to any final conclusion/decision. You can replace these proposed sub-options with any new ones of your own.
Their final six sub-options looked quite interesting and they were particularly intrigued by – Option BB: Utilize fresh technologies to neutralize minefields. They did then pursue emotional distancing again with your editor’s advice that, once they revisited their sub-options, they should stick with whatever choice their intuitive minds arrived at. It would only likely work against them to second-guess themselves once their initial decision was made…no matter the challenges ahead.
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