Regime, Change

"Denazification would mean regime change in Ukraine," says the BBC baldly. So Hunter Biden's laptop was real. The biolabs were real; Ukraine is now offering no longer to host American weapons of mass destruction. And now, the fact that the Ukrainian Government and Armed Forces are nests of Nazis is real, too. Just like that.

On the table after all are Crimea, not historically part of the Ukraine, and therefore full of Russians; Luhansk and Donetsk, which Ukrainian Nationalists would like rather more in theory than in practice, since those, too, are full of Russians, having been incorporated into Soviet Ukraine in order to make independence impossible; and constitutional neutrality. Had all of this been said five weeks ago, then there would never have been a war.

As it is, Ukraine has libelled the Red Cross, and the Peace Corps is advising African-American volunteers not to go there or to the refugee camps in neighbouring countries because the supporters of the Ukrainian Government would call them the n-word. And why would Vladimir Putin have poisoned Roman Abramovich? If anyone has, though, then that high-living 55-year-old has made a remarkably speedy recovery.