Sunday, August 05, 2018

Send Russia the Bill

Ukraine will unleash the lawyers on Russia:

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has ordered the creation of a body to prepare a lawsuit against Russia for damages caused by separatists whom Moscow supports in the Donbas region and for its illegal annexation of the Crimea Peninsula.

Early on in the war, I figured Ukraine should send in the lawyers by charging Russia rent for their illegal occupation of Ukrainian territory. That had to be a part of a strategy that puts Russia's gleaming Battlestar Crimea at risk, but sending in the lawyers should be an asymmetric form of warfare on Russia.