Reading TASS so you don't have to.

[Tomconroy]

Never before saw so many lies and so many beating the war drums stories. They say they have to take the cities and eliminate all the nazis. Never seen so many aggressive stories

I wouldn't be surprised if the Russians make one more attempt to go on the offensive this week. Their army has been quiet for days now.

[peppertree]

1. They put the ass in TASS

I love how they call it the "Ukraine crisis" - as if Russia had nothing to do with it whatsoever.

Almost as bad as our dear old Faux News.

[empedocles]

3. ''putin crisis''

[peppertree]

4. That's what it is

Just like Bush - but worse.

Destabilizing the world and wrecking havoc on prices, just to satisfy paranoid delusions.

But Russia cannot weather this new scenario for very long - and Putin will probably end up committing suicide. He'd have no one to blame but himself.

[LakeArenal]

2. Offensive indeed.

[NotASurfer]

5. I'm wondering how "Tet Offensive" translates culturally into Ukrainian

With a lot of partisan fighters putting rounds downrange all at once, to make a point about how well the "pacification" effort was going. And it would mess up the supply lines royally.

Idle musing/random thought/analogy on the arrogance of the outsiders

[WarGamer]

6. They've only been "quiet" near Kiev...

They're taking territory in the South.