Long-Range ATACMS Will Make Crimea Worthless to Russia

US soldiers at White Sands Missile Range on December 14th, 2021 conduct live fire testing of old ATACMS missiles to confirm the older weapons are still reliable and ready for use. Public domain — DVIDS

Representatives from the Russian business newspaper Коммерсантъ (or Kommersant), translated loosely as “The Businessman,” have been creeping on my social profiles this past week.

The paper is owned by Alisher Umanov, an oligarch who’s close to the Kremlin.

As of 2019, Kommersant was one of Russia’s last remaining newspapers still clinging to…