We’re now 26 months into Vladimir Putin’s grad adventure to restore the glory of the Romanov Empire, and it’s time to see how that’s working out for him.
The biggest story of the week is the Senate passing the Ukraine aid package after two months of dithering by the House. The Defense Department had forward positioned the first tranche of weapons, munitions, and equipment to be drawn on the new spending authority in Poland. Within hours of Joe Biden signing the bill into law, the equipment was heading into Ukraine.
In my view, the Russians should have taken away two lessons. First, they can’t rely on alt-right and hard-left social media accounts for political intelligence. Second, Europe, less Germany, seems to have come to the realization that Russia is a threat to Western Europe.
The other shoe waiting to drop is confiscating Russian assets now frozen in the West. Along with the…
