When You’re Losing a War, Try Terrorism — The Ukrainian Gambit

Terrorism — i.e., the use of violence on civilians and civilian targets for a political purpose — is an act of weakness, not strength. A couple of incidents — the crash of an Azerbaijani airplane in Aktau, Kazakhstan, and the sinking of the Oboronlogistica, a Russian state-controlled company that operated the Ursa Major freighter, in the Mediterranean S…