Heir's happy that this morning that Foot In Mouth From Delaware had responded to Putin's accusations of Western hypocrisy.  However, Foot In Mouth stopped short of a detailed line-by-line debunking of what Putin said, and Heir's disappointed by that.  All the more reason that the Bachelor plans to do that detailed response accordingly.  That won't be in the next episode, but the next one after that.  Though it's possible by then Putin will have kissed and made up, and everyone's one big happy family like before the crisis.  It's the Short News Cycles Blues.

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.