Bear Watch ’14: Jim Geraghty gets it.
From Kiev:
Ukrainians, however, were convinced from Putin’s speech to the Russian Duma that the conflict could not remain cold. Many said they found some of Putin’s phrasing chilling, including his statement that “We’re one nation. Kiev is the mother of all Russian cities.”
Read the whole thing: Putin Redraws Russian Borders; Obama Unveils Bracket Picks
And please reread Putin’s words there and recall what Confucius told you the other day, lest you think that, satisfied with Crimea, Vlad will leave Ukraine alone:
Russians tend not to believe that land, Ukraine (like their other former imperial possessions), is a real country, rather as if the Conch Republic of Key West were inexplicably given a seat at the United Nations
Don’t ask impertinent questions like that jackass Adept Lu.