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UKRAINE-WATCH

Dan Drezner rounds up the latest news and, after seeing some, um, eccentric British op-eds, asks "Is Fleet Street on crack, or what?". (I've been wondering that for quite a while.) On the scene in Kiev, Discoshaman of Le Sabot Post-Moderne e-mails me with his response to ex-ambassador to Hungary, Peter Unwin:

"What an Orwellian bastard. The only guns being directed at anyone right now are pointed at us."

One of Disco's readers has an idea what Unwin would have said if he'd been our man in Budapest in 1956:

"Im sorry Mr Nagy, but Her Majesty's Government really would rather you stopped throwing petrol bombs at all these Soviet tanks driving over your borders. We don't want to upset them you see"

UPDATE: They're not all crackheads at the Guardian. Harry's Place links to an op-ed by the paper's Moscow correspondent.

ANOTHER UPDATE: David Satter sketches the background in the Wall Street Journal (subscriber-only). In Le Figaro, French historian Alain Besançon (a contributor to Commentary) reminds us what is at stake.

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