Monday. Left a little after 10:30. Blacksmith. On the cool side and overcast, but gradually the sun and southwesterly winds started pulling things apart, making for good-looking skies. Back in the home territory: gele brug, 't-Zand, then right at the Lint as far as the Smalle Themaat. Then the bike path to the Rijneveldse Bospad, right at Haarzuilens, toward Kortrijk. Some weeds by the side of the roads and bike paths either brown, or mowed down. The smell of cut grass; good views of Kockengen from Kortrijk. Through Breukelen and Scheendijk south, then the Strook to Griendweg and Middenweg, Heuvellaan, Nedereindse Vaart and Molenpolder to Kooijdijk. Paper from Van der Neut (not appreciated, basically a failed experiment) and back into town. The news of the jamming, most likely by Russia, of Von der Leyen's plane, forcing the pilots to navigate to the ground using paper maps. Sending the head of the organization most engaged in supporting Ukraine--or opposing Russia's goals on the continent--an unsubtle signal: we'll mess with you to the point of endangering your life, and there's nothing you can do about it. It's up to the EU, or at least willing European governments, to prove the thugs in the Kremlin wrong. The American president remains missing in action when it comes to measures that make life difficult for Moscow, and there's no indication that this will change any time soon.
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