
TODAY'S JOLT IS SPONSORED BY | | | On the menu today: Ukrainians see the sudden shift in U.S. policy toward the region, sigh, shrug, and go on with the fight to ensure their continued right to exist. If NATO membership is out, then there's another European alliance that may prove to be a worthwhile substitute. A Kremlin spokesman laughably declares, "No one can dictate anything to any country, and we are not going to do that." The Next Steps for Ukraine Kyiv, Ukraine — A question I get from readers at home is how the Ukrainians are reacting to the abrupt changes in U.S. policy toward Russia. One friend described a Ukrainian official's mood as "ready to commit seppuku." Halyna Yanchenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament and chair of a committee on investor protection, was at the Munich Security Conference last week. Referring to Christoph Heusgen, the German diplomat and chair of the conference who shed tears, she said, "He did what a lot of other men felt." But there's also a certain "so be it" determination to Ukrainians in the past week. They've always been the underdogs, and they've had all kinds of things go wrong in the course of defending ... | |
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