Crimea crisis has come from nowhere but Putin has form for military adventures in Olympic years, and west appears weakenedThe situation in Crimea looks ominous. On Wednesday Russia’s FSB spy agency said it had foiled a series of attacks by armed Ukrainians on the Crimean peninsula. Minutes later, Vladimir Putin accused Kiev’s pro-western government of choosing terror over peace. Meanwhile, largely unnoticed by the outside world, Russia has been stealthily sending military vehicles by boat to Crimea, the territory Putin annexed in the spring of 2014.What is going on? As ever in the opaque world of neo-Kreminology, nobody quite knows. …read more
Source: The Guardian
