Russia honors Trump's energy ceasefire by bombing an academy of sciences and apartments instead

…(cont) None of those is an energy facility. That is the position available to anyone defending the fourteen words, and it happens to be correct — the post named one category of target, and Russia hit a different one, so nothing in the text of the agreement was — actually, there is no text to check that against beyond the fourteen words themselves, and those fourteen words say nothing about apartment buildings, research institutes, or daylight. They cover energy targets. They were never asked to cover anything else, which reads either like a loophole or like the whole point, depending on which building you were standing in on Monday.

What the fourteen words did not include was a monitor, an inspector, or a signature confirmed from Moscow. It was a paragraph on a personal account, describing what two governments had supposedly agreed to — supposedly, because the post itself includes no statement from Moscow confirming any of it — with no party named as the one who would notice if the terms were broken. Two weeks later, seven people were killed in the capital of one of the two countries the paragraph claimed to speak for. The diesel prices that started this, the ones Zelensky's refinery strikes were raising and the post was written to bring down, are not mentioned anywhere in Monday's wire copy. Monday's wire copy is about a research institute, apartment buildings, and a body count hospitals were still confirming.