Russia is not particularly enamored by my piece on Tuesday outlining why Ukraine should blow up elements of Putin’s bridge from Ukraine to Russia.

President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry “the watch” Peskov referred to my piece as “madness” and says that the Russian government has opened a criminal investigation against me. The bots and a mix of Russian ultranationalists are also out in force on Twitter, where I have received at least 40 death threats and around 20 threats to my family.