Sure it’s tentative—after the negotiations concluded, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she had a “glimmer of hope” that everything would work out as intended—but the announcement of both a cease-fire and a plan for making that cease-fire permanent must still be a heart-breaker for John McCain and his legions. The Great American War Machine was all dressed up for this one! And now they’ve cancelled the prom! Waaaaah!
The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank explains just how hot Big John is to trot now that he’s head of the Senate Armed Services Committee. “I’ve never seen more turmoil,” John tells us, breathlessly. More wars! More wars! And, above all, more toys! We need vast increases in military spending! It’s going to be just like 1981!
And now this! Less turmoil! Damn it! And this was going to be so much fun!
Afterwords
Of course, the Ukraine cease-fire is nothing but touchy. At Bloomberg View, Leonid Bershidsky’s view is nothing but gloomy, but I suspect that half the reason is that Leonid wanted to see Ukraine moved entirely out of Russia’s orbit, and even though I’m sure he knows a good deal more about Eastern Europe than I do, I think that was never in the cards.
More of my bitching about right-wing America’s Ukraine obsession here.
