Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Mate in Ten Moves

A Putin advisor has written a scenario by which Russia turns the Crimea/Ukraine contretemps into a ten step plan for world domination. See a summary at the National Review Online website.

That's what you get from a nation of chess players. Russians keep scheming on a foreign policy "checkmate." Meanwhile, the rest of the world wants them to intentionally play to a draw. That is, leave their neighbors alone.