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This weekend, an apparent Ukrainian rocket barrage reportedly blew up a rail bridge Russian workers were building south of Hranitne, 25 miles north of the Sea of Azov coast and 50 miles south of the front line in occupied southeastern Ukraine. It’s one of the biggest under-reported events in months in a grinding war where logistics are everything. In reportedly dropping the incomplete span over the Kalmius River, Ukraine sets back—indeed, makes a mockery of—Russia’s efforts to improve its supply lines to its beleaguered forces in and around Crimea in southern Ukraine. “The Ukrainians just shot a hole in a...

The horrifying attacks on Ukraine yesterday– are a sign that the Russian president is, if not yet desperate, getting nearer to it. They represent a highly significant psychological shift for the beleaguered leader. He is no longer trying to win the war: now he is simply trying not to visibly lose it. Previously he could have defined victory however he wanted. But by annexing Ukrainian regions, he has upped the already high stakes. If he cedes so-called ‘Russian’ territory, he will become the Tsar who gave away Russian land instead of the strongman who restored the empire. And by ordering...

When Scott McClellan was badgered by reporters about the "beleaguered" affect the indictment of Tom DeLay was having on the President's agenda and Republicans, he should have answered: When a retiring prosecutor issues an indictment that he knows has no factual foundation, and yet he issues that indictment for the sole purpose of how the indictment will aid his political party, then I would think that it is his political party that is beleaguered. So, maybe you should go ask Mr. Earle why his party is so desperate.