Oh, and then there is this:
Putin and the 'Mariupol' Test.
That is the headline to an op-ed article by two fellows, Hans Binnendijk and John Herbst, in the Times today, Mariupol being the city in southern Ukraine previously referred to by the undersigned in that March 14 post as "Marsupial" on accounta he knew it was something like that. Keen readers of this page may recall the undersigned published a map at the time of the latest cease-fire agreement between Russia and Ukraine and he pointed out that among all of those squiggly lines the aforesaid Mariupol was squiggled out, meaning Mariupol could be fought over. Fellows Binnendijk and Herbst argue for it to be a test of the West's deterrence of Russia in establishing a connection to Crimea, late of Ukraine, now of Russia. No. No and hell no.
Putin and the 'Mariupol' Test.
That is the headline to an op-ed article by two fellows, Hans Binnendijk and John Herbst, in the Times today, Mariupol being the city in southern Ukraine previously referred to by the undersigned in that March 14 post as "Marsupial" on accounta he knew it was something like that. Keen readers of this page may recall the undersigned published a map at the time of the latest cease-fire agreement between Russia and Ukraine and he pointed out that among all of those squiggly lines the aforesaid Mariupol was squiggled out, meaning Mariupol could be fought over. Fellows Binnendijk and Herbst argue for it to be a test of the West's deterrence of Russia in establishing a connection to Crimea, late of Ukraine, now of Russia. No. No and hell no.
