Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
George Weigel: The bear is loose
A picture shows a Ukrainian multiple rocket launcher "Grad" set on the position near the eastern city of Seversk on July 12, 2014, a day after the town was freed from pro-Russian militants. Ukraine's leader Petro Poroshenko has accepted an invitation to attend Sunday's World Cup final in Rio de Janeiro, with Russian President Vladimir Putin there too, amid a crisis between their countries, Brazil's government said. AFP PHOTO/ GENYA SAVILOV
According to the July 11 Washington Post, aides to President Obama are using a Twitter account with the moniker #TheBearIsLoose to drum up trade for the president’s current magical mystery tour. Here, along the banks of the Vistula River, with the immediate neighborhood getting more ominous by the week, the notion that the Bear is loose has a different connotation: The Bear is indeed loose, once again, and has been making a lot of trouble, first in Crimea, then in Donetsk and Luhansk and other parts of southern and eastern Ukraine, while continuing to threaten the Baltic democracies and occupyTransnistria in Moldova. The Bear is Vladimir Putin’s Russia on the prowl, not the beer-swigging Barack Obama, “connecting” with the citizenry.
