Do be sure to check out this brilliant, marvelous, incandescently stupendous piece by our very own Messiah of the Moment, Max "I used to be Otto von Bismarck in a previous life" Fisher, in which Fisher discusses the Obama administration's attempt to deter Vladimir Putin from gobbling up any of the Baltic states. Especially wonderful and …
Quote of the Day
I'm a citizen of Ukraine. I don't want to be a citizen of another country, or of Russia. It's well known what it's like to live in Russia. There's absolutely no civil society whatsoever. You can't say what you want. People can't gather for demonstrations unless it's good for the government. --Andrei Voloshin. You won't …
Scene of the Crimea
I wish that I could stop writing blog posts whose theme is "when it comes to the standoff between Russia and Ukraine, things are terrible," but when it comes to the standoff between Russia and Ukraine, things are terrible. Estonia is convinced that Russia is going to invade Eastern Ukraine, and given that Russian troops …