U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at the presidential residence in Sochi (Joshua Roberts / Reuters) If you believe all the talk out there lately, Vladimir Putin is not only duplicitous and hypocritical—the Russian president’s also been pretty damn busy recently. Busy cutting secret deals with the same Europeans and Americans he has been vilifying for years. And if you believe the rumors, the Europeans and Americans have also been busy selling out Ukraine to the Russians. Not that any of this would be unusual or particularly surprising. Cynicism, duplicity, and hypocrisy are often …read more
Source: The Atlantic
