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Friday, March 21, 2014

Cartoons: Crimea and winter

There's a lot of news about Putin annexing Crimea, and sanctions against it, and who-did-what-and-why.  Even Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikita Khrushchev, is weighing in--he's writing a series of articles titled "Crimea: Whose land is this?" Note that it's published by Aljazeera (link resolves to the American edition) and that he clearly has a chip on his shoulder for the U.S.:
In Washington DC, the best minds of the Obama administration were feverishly thinking how else to make it more difficult for the recalcitrant citizens of Crimea. They will definitely think of something since they have a lot of experience in doing so. After all, Iraqis, Iranians, Syrians, Libyans and the Lebanese have long stopped celebrating.

Here's what some of the political cartoonists are saying.
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image: cartoon by Jimmy Margulies
Jimmy Margulies, USA Today
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image: cartoon by Walt Handelsman
Walt Handelsman, US News
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image: cartoon by Steve Sack
Steve Sack, The Week

Meanwhile, on the winter front--
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image: cartoon by Bob Englehart
Bob Englehart, The Week

-- Marge

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