I’m in Mariupol on the Azov Sea in Ukraine’s southeast. This port city may be the next place to feel the full force of the “ceasefire” brokered by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her sidekick, French President Francois Hollande. The officers from the Ukrainian battalion I’m with, say that around 70 Russian tanks, armored personnel carrier and self-propelled artillery pieces, which crossed the Russian border into Ukraine overnight, are trundling towards us.

It’s been pathetically easy to predict that the mealy-mouthed German Chancellor Angela Merkel and puny French President Francois Hollande would stand reality on its head to avoid unequivocally blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for the breakdown of the present “cease-fire.”