Commentary As Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, has been saying recently, “Everything is going swimmingly.” Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, has 100,000 troops massed on the border of Ukraine. Will he invade? Joe Biden, the U.S. president, seems to think a “minor incursion” would be OK. Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, is less enthusiastic about the prospect, but perhaps that is because, according to some reports, Biden warned him that Russian troops might “sack” Kyiv. Some sources dispute that the U.S. president said that, but we don’t really know one way or the other since the White House refuses to release the transcript of the call and there are no double-dealers like Alexander Vindman in place to leak the details as he did when Donald Trump spoke to Zelensky. Vindman—pardon, I mean “Lt. Col. Vindman”—was happy to be a cog in the great Impeach Trump Follies of 2020. Now, however, he …
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