Jack Reed said...

Firing the military's most senior legal advisers is an unprecedented and explicit move to install officers who will yiel...

It was not planned at all. It was the exact opposite of how most people expected the exchange to go.

if you're going to break the law, the first thing you do is you get rid of the lawyers.

If Putin is successful, he will not stop at Ukraine, and if you are a Baltic state, you are thinking, I am next.