Outside the Beltway

Putin’s war of choice has created a humanitarian nightmare.

Actions deemed unthinkable days earlier are suddenly mandatory.

Some speculation from the BBC.

A remarkable display of blaming the victim (by the victimizer).

One can see the faintest hint of a backbone in the former Vice President.

Putin is a monster, but he may also be just as irrational as the rest of us.

The ferocity of the global reaction to Putin’s invasion is stunning.

The Russian leader is isolated and under tremendous pressure.

Most people liked it more than I did.

The American President is once again leading the free world.

It might feel good but it has zero impact on Putin.

Pundits like Thomas Friedman struggle with premature prognostication.

Links and infographics.

Addressing an analytical pet peeve (and, more importantly, correcting a mistake).

NATO has stepped up in a pleasantly surprising way to resist the Ukraine invasion.

News and commentary of note.

Some of his numbers are worse than even Donald Trump’s.

Manhattan’s new DA seems to think he has a weak case.

Sanctions are already taking a toll. But the West could do more if it had the will.

Deterring Russia is a matter of principle.

The military threat is smaller, but the political one is bigger.

Putin’s forces are in Kyiv.

The first shoe has dropped.

The much-anticipated escalation has happened. Now to see how the United States and its allies respond.

Western intelligence agencies continue to predict an invasion under absurd pretexts.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

Expert opinion on the standoff differs sharply.

The United States and its NATO allies are in a dangerous standoff.

A roundup of reflection on a somber anniversary.

Russia’s leader sees the situation in the former Soviet Republic quite differently than the West.

Russia may invade Ukraine again. The United States would prefer otherwise.

A depressing magazine piece argues it is.

It appears that normal safeguards were ignored, leading to disaster on the set.

They shall not submit to blackmail!

American cheese will henceforth be known as liberté cheese. And not because of the metric system.

The postmortems are well underway.

But compared to what?

Even incredibly abnormal Presidents are Presidents.

Rudy may not be a very good lawyer…

RussiaGate is back in the news but the story is unlikely to move the needle.

An exceptional choice that breaks the recent tradition of politicos in the post.

Up is down. Down is up.

Rudy Giuliani and a hack tabloid are trying to revive the Burisma story.

The President is deeply leveraged with no escape in sight.

A Senate GOP report doesn’t find anything new.

Statements by an HHS official underscore the rot of this administration.

A pleasant surprise.