William Dowell’s regular Tom’s Paine column. Cartoon by Jeff Danziger. (Also see LINK to Danziger’s latest book, The Vietnam War according to Lieuttenant Dangerous) The two break away regions, the Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic, in south eastern Ukraine, known collectively as the Donbas, have been largely autonomous since 2014 when the … Continue reading Russia’s Ukraine Intervention: Death by a Thousand Cuts?