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Sunday, April 17, 2022
It is hard to believe, but now impossible to deny, that the broad framework that kept much of the world stable and prospering since the end of the Cold War has been seriously fractured by Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. In ways we hadn’t fully appreciated, a lot of that framework rested on the West’s ability to coexist with Putin as he played “bad boy,” testing the limits of the world order but never breaching them at scale.
With several games postponed due to weather complications, it meant that last week would feature a much more active slate. Unfortunately Mother Nature still did not fully cooperate, notably on Wednesday when both baseball and softball had games pushed back once again, but for the most part, the action was able to be completed as scheduled.
Perhaps the most under-reported land dispute in Arlington’s history involved what we now know as the Air Force Memorial.
Events in and around Falls Church this week
Putin is not going to give up easily, or at all, in his hyper obsessive, criminal assault against the people of Ukraine. There is an abundance of historical evidence over many centuries that such invasions in that region are seldom, if ever, resolved without horrific, unthinkable bloodshed of anything that moves before defeat is conceded.
The Falls Church City Council this Monday pressed ahead with the next stage of its complicated agreement to advance the development of the extraordinary mixed use development project at the site of now demolished George Mason High School. It OK’d a series of moves to convey the property to the City’s Economic Development Authority (EDA) and open the way for the West Falls Partners group to commence with work on the 10 acre site.
Washington Post columnist Gary Abernathy’s provocative column in Wednesday’s edition, entitled, “Can’t We ‘Imagine’ a Better Song for Peace,” ignored the real reason for the latest surge of interest in the 1971 song by John Lennon, which of course has been the recent bloody invasion of Ukraine by Russian arch butcher Vlad (the Impaler) Putin.
As the Falls Church City Council gave a preliminary OK to its new FY23 budget that will be formally adopted in early May and goes into effect July 1, the action this Monday came in the context of jitters about the wider economy, fueled mostly the current inflation rate.
Meet Cooper! He loves to spend his days lounging around the house.
