Andrea Widburg Reports

By Rich Kozlovich

• The amazing story of the Russian tank and the little car - If you've been watching TV or scrolling through the internet since the Russian assault against Ukraine began, you've probably seen an appalling video showing a huge Russian tank swerve abruptly to drive over a small civilian car.  It's an act of viciousness that highlights the depravity of Russian troops.  Except that's not what happened.  In fact, the Russian tank was swerving to avoid enemy fire or friendly fire, or because he was lost.  Most amazingly, the driver survived the experience, at least long enough to be taken to a hospital..........
• The unexpected constitutional amendment Occupy Democrats supports - If there's one principle that all factions of America's leftist spectrum support, it's that guns are bad.  The only way to keep society safe, they all say, is for the government to seize everyone's guns.  However, Occupy Democrats, which is siding with Ukraine as Russia attacks it, has a newfound enthusiasm for the Second Amendment.  It put out a series of tweets celebrating these weapons of war in civilian hands...........
• The bombs are real, but what's coming out of DC is theater - I thought and hoped Putin was posturing or that, even if he wasn't posturing, NATO would get its act together and either promise to keep Ukraine neutral or become so threatening that Putin would decide that invading Ukraine was too risky.  Alternatively, I figured that the most that Putin would do would be what Biden called "a minor incursion" and lay claim to the land closest to Russia.  I was completely wrong.  Putin, instead, mounted a blitzkrieg, similar to Germany's attack on Poland in 1939.  The bombs are real.  Unfortunately for Ukraine and, probably, the whole world, what's coming out of Washington is not real at all.  It's just theater.........