"Mr. Obama has been particularly intent on not getting too far in front of Europe to avoid giving Mr. Putin a chance to drive a wedge in the international coalition that has condemned the Russian annexation of Crimea and destabilizing actions in eastern Ukraine."Some have suggested all along that said wedge is exactly Putin’s purpose, not only in the matter of Ukraine but in the Snowden affair as well.
Today’s Times also includes a story about a $1.5 billion project to cap the ruined reactor at Chernobyl:
The costs are enormous — the Chernobyl arch alone will end up costing about $1.5 billion, financed largely by the United States and about 30 other nations.Chernobyl is in Ukraine.
Not everyone subscribes to the Times, I know, and I’ll be trying to limit the number of Times stories I link to in the future, partly to make it easier for you, faithful reader, but mostly to divert the funds involved to more important matters, like ice cream or chocolate cookies. Still, I have a long-standing regard for the Times (which I’ve mentioned here before) and there are undeniably a lot of stories in the Times every day worth mentioning, like, for example, this morning’s Krugman column on the noted moocher (and libertarian darling) Cliven Bundy which notes:
It’s true that some of the people profiting from implicit taxpayer subsidies manage, all the same, to convince themselves and others that they are rugged individualists. But they’re actually welfare queens of the purple sage.
And this in turn means that treating Mr. Bundy as some kind of libertarian hero is, not to put too fine a point on it, crazy.
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