So Much Happening, So Little News
It's a holiday weekend in the US on top of the Super Bowl, so naturally Biden's handlers are sending cryptic messages about how Putin may or may not be ready to invade Ukraine. The one person who doesn't seem to be bothered is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “The Ukrainians presented a very hard position,” said Russian envoy Dmitry Kozak, noting that it was impossible to reconcile conflicting interpretations of an accord, known as the Minsk agreements, designed to halt the fighting between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed separatists. . . . On Thursday, Kozak chided the Europeans for failing to bring Ukraine into compliance. “My impression was that the Western diplomacy had no impact on the Ukrainian position in the talks,” Kozak said. The mood in Washington seems strangely disconnected: “There is a credible prospect that a Russia military action would take place even before the Olympics,” White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said at the...