A few months ago I wrote from eastern Ukraine that Russian President Vladimir Putin might have blinked when he appeared to do an unexpected volte-face and called for an end to the violence there.
I was wrong. Putin did not blink. What the Russian leader has done every day since the beginning of March has been to hoodwink the West about everything related to his absurd tale that his forces were not involved in the annexation of Crimea or in the bloody civil war that he has fostered along Ukraine’s eastern border.
All that winking is why it is bootless to put …read more
Source: canada.com
