Don’t be like the pundits blaming NATO expansion, or the West’s post-Cold War hubris, for the pointless, terrifying crisis around Ukraine. Just listen to Putin, and his decades of crude imperial coercion
MOSCOW The daily count of new coronavirus infections in Russia spiked above 110,000 on Saturday as the highly contagious Omicron variant races through the vast country. The state coronavirus task force reported 113,122 new infections over the past 24 hours an all-time high and a sevenfold increase from early in…