Of UK and Ukraine

WHEN politics fails, try geopolitics. To British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who is drowning in scandals at home, that means shifting the focus from London to Kiev. Ukraine doesn’t know how thankful Johnson is to the country for providing a welcome distraction. And he couldn’t let the opportunity pass. Over the weekend, and late at night at that, he got his Foreign and Commonwealth Office to do an uncommon thing: announce to the world a Russian plot to place a pro-Moscow leader in Ukraine. More like an Anglo-Saxon plot. Washington didn’t wait a second to back up the British insight into Kremlin thinking, having itself “sighted” another plot on Jan 14. We have been here before. When former…