Picking its battles
As it retreats from a losing war against Covid, the U.S. is squaring off with Russia in Ukraine.
The United States is evacuating its diplomats’ families from Kyiv as President Joe Biden weighs options for sending U.S. forces into the Baltic states and Eastern Europe to respond to what it says is a looming Russian invasion of Ukraine. The United Kingdom says Moscow has gone so far as to select former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev as a pro-Russ…