Thus The Wall Street Journal today. “Any attack on Russians in Ukraine will be perceived as an attack against Russia, foreign minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying as Ukraine called for a renewal of a stalled military operation,” elaborates the newspaper. The line is clearly drawn at long last. Russia equals Russians. The Ukrainian government cannot but attempt to topple the pro-Russian separatists in Eastern Ukraine, and Russia cannot but protect them from the Ukrainian military onslaught. In short, the Russian invasion is nigh. Neither America nor the European Union could care less, it goes without saying, but Lavrov’s line stretches well beyond Ukraine. To wit, there are Russians galore across the eastern border of the European Union. All of a sudden, the cold war sounds like a perfectly acceptable alternative to the strife behind the corner. If Russia equals Russians, where is the new border of the vaunted Union?