Voices in Flyover Land

We gots our Bret Stephens and Ross Douthat and David Brooks and Tom Friendman thinkers out here too.  Here's some of what they're saying, (now that Nate Silver can't poll us anymore):

We should have taken the peace deal that Putin and Zelensky signed last March as good enough. People in Crimea don't want to be "Ukrainians" have not resisted the Russians who came in and took over without firing a shot, and the people in Donbas have been fighting against the idea for 9 years. Let's take them at their word already. Settle the dispute, it's not worth WW3 to make sure that Kiev can rule over all of the territories that fell into its lap at the fall of the Soviet Union, territories that were never actually "Ukrainian" and whose people clearly don't want to be ruled over by them, to have their language stamped out and their culture destroyed by the indoctrination of their children.