April 26—The Ukraine theater of NATO’s proxy war against Russia continues on its trajectory of an early superpower showdown, with relentless chatter broadcast by Ukrainian authorities, from President Zelenskyy on down, of a coming Ukrainian “counter-offensive” to include seizing control of Crimea—a nuclear tripwire if ever there was one. High-level Russian officials continue to warn, at every opportunity, about where that trajectory leads—“a hot, full-scale World War III,” as Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev stated yesterday.