I Got No Eyelids

Lockstep Mosh Pit of Gloom

Well, heck. The response to a possible Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been truly remarkable, and the reporting quite bizarre. We’re laughing in Semyhory, and the gratitude is boundless.

Monday morning began with Ukraine’s new Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov proposing to tip Putin’s cost/benefit ratio analysis by stationing flag-waving Canadian, British and American soldiers in eastern and southern areas of the country that Russia might attack first.

The response of Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff General Wayne Eyre was swift and unequivocal: No. Are you fucking crazy? On the record, he added, “In a case like this, diplomacy has to lead.”

That anyone anywhere is so stupid as to take Reznikov’s suggestion seriously is a cause for concern. Rounding up and sending members of Ukraine’s fifth column, including all members of parliament’s Opposition Bloc - For Life faction, to front-line positions is a much better idea.

A second report by Henry Foy, the Moscow-based journalis…