The assault continues, after unexpected stumbles and resistance.
In just a few days the world seems to have rearranged itself, with light blue and yellow flags popping up everywhere. How this all ends is hard to guess - it's only just beginning, really. Significant civilian casualties - deliberately targeted, by inital indications - have already started to be reported. But what had initially been presented as a local event in Russia's neighborhood has proved global in resonance, and seems likely to be global in impacts, too. Globally dangerous, too.