As America was debating the Super Bowl halftime show and bickering about politicized mask mandates, the mood in Europe over the situation in Ukraine was turning mighty bleak — 130,000 amassing Russian troops and the possibility of an imminent military invasion can have that effect.
This week, the defiant Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that his government had been told that Wednesday will be “the day of attack.” Russia, of course, denied this, and Zelenskyy later walked back his comments, saying he only was repeating media reports of the opinions of others. But who can trust Russia?
Nobody. European leaders were confirming the likelihood of an imminent invasion all day Monday. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson described the situation as “the edge of a precipice.”
