Confident ukrainians are in diplomacy with russia with every scrape and swing of their shovels. troops are digging new defensive trenches in the frozen ground close to russian forces. ukrainian troops are preparing for the worst because they worry that russia is not negotiating in good faith and is just going through the motions of diplomacy so it can say it gave peace a chance, and invade anyway. in geneva, russian diplomats met for eight hours. no breakthroughs. the russian diplomat insisted he has no plans to invade. he added a warning. after every mistake and miscalculation with respect to what should be done, the security of countries to the west of russia suffers. ....