Saturday, March 15, 2014

The Bachelor will weigh in on Crimea on audio at some point (though not the next episode, maybe the one after).  But seeing how that referendum is scheduled for tomorrow, and that Crimea will almost certainly vote to leave the Ukraine, the Ukraine needs to make it easier for those leaving Crimea in response, to continue to recognize their Ukrainian citizenship should they retreat towards the surrounding oblasts.  The Heir is not confident that the present government in Kiev is smart enough to come up with that idea, let alone make that announcement today ahead of the vote.  They're taking the approach of, everything depends on this vote going our way, even though we know it won't.  It's like that kind of passive aggressive rival-agreed symbiosis that the Heir continues not to understand in vanilla politics, whether in the U.S. or the Black Sea rim.

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