Full Comment’s Araminta Wordsworth brings you a daily round-up of quality punditry from across the globe. Today: With the White House still pretending Crimea wasn’t invaded, Vladmir Putin has correctly assessed the West’s appetite for going to war over eastern Ukraine — zero.
As a result, Kyiv will be powerless to prevent the territory, known as Novorossiya (New Russia) in tsarist times, from returning to the Motherland. Ukraine’s ability to function as an independent state may also be threatened.
The latest evidence came on the weekend, when residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics cast their ballots.
The election was condemned …read more
Source: National Post
