Donald Trump Jr. expresses alarm; Alex Soros expresses delight.

The following map is a conspicuous illustration of why Russia has, since the Bucharest NATO Summit in 2008, stated its staunch opposition to Ukraine joining NATO. If you thought Cuba was uncomfortably close to the Pentagon to host a Soviet missile base in 1962, consider that Cuba is about 1100 miles from Washington D.C., while the northeast corner of Ukraine is about 350 miles from Moscow.

With Biden the lame duck puppet on his way out, whoever is running his administration has decided to kick up the brinkmanship a big notch by giving Ukraine a green light to go ahead and launch an American-made ballistic missile, which flew more than 140 km to hit a target in the Bryansk region of Russia.

With the information landscape hopelessly cluttered by propaganda, it’s tough to say what exactly is going on. An X page titled Military News UA is boasting the following: