I have a queasy feeling about Kherson, the city in Ukraine abandoned by the Russian military. Previously Russian civilians and sympathizers were evacuated to Russia. Today elite elements of the Ukraine armed forces are in the city and the region, greeted as liberators by the remaining population loyal to Ukraine. The Kremlin has been uncharacteristically quiet about all this.
I am trying to trust that American and other Intelligence would know or at least suspect if Russia were preparing for a nuclear strike on Kherson. But Russia laid the groundwork for justifying it in the past month or so. I'll take comfort that if Russia has laid the trap as well as the groundwork but does not launch nuclear bombs on that city in the very near future, then it is unlikely it will use nuclear weapons anywhere in Ukraine. (Though if the reason they don't is that Kherson is too close to Russia itself, then that assumption is shaky.)
I hope this triumph for Ukraine holds up, and the world isn't being suckered, only to awaken to the greatest shock of the century so far.
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