LEAVING UKRAINE TO ITS FATE: Leon Weiseltier in The New Republic: “Obama has concluded…that he ‘will never have a constructive relationship with Mr. Putin,’ and so he has decided that he ‘will spend his final two and a half years in office trying to minimize the disruption Mr. Putin can cause, preserve whatever marginal cooperation can be saved and otherwise ignore the master of the Kremlin.’” Ignoring the master, of course, has the consequence of ignoring the master’s victims.