The Russian attack on Ukraine, including the bombing this week of Kyiv’s television tower, shows that Putin’s brutality knows no bounds. What started in Crimea in 2014 should end at The Hague
Now, at long last, we have come to know Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
Once the very model of the Trumpists’ stable genius, opaque and enduring as a gold-leafed sphinx, the former KGB lieutenant colonel has shown his hand, staking the core of his legacy to a rolling, heartless, multifaceted, monumental war crime.