June 25—“Those who look only at trees, and cannot see the forest, will give birth to a generation of saplings.” It is most important, as the past 72 hours of current history have shown, to, in this rapidly changing circumstance, “not be caught below the level of events,” as the late Schiller Institute founding member and thinker, Fred Wills, used to say. Several “analysts,” including Stephen Hall, current head of Russia Operations at the CIA, spouted off yesterday, hopefully, manically, about the imminent demise of Vladimir Putin. “In my view, if the siloviki—the senior intelligence, security and military folks—make the assessment that OK, this has gotten too crazy, then Putin’s done.”