Back in February Oxford’s Timothy Garton Ash, arguably the wisest interpreter of events in Eastern Europe, observed that the future of Putin, Russia and Europe was at stake in Ukraine.
In the months that have followed, Russia annexed Crimea, Ukraine elected a new president, fighting intensified in the southeast, and Russia intervened militarily to save from defeat the secessionists it sponsored and supported.
Throughout the crisis the standard view has been that Russia’s Vladimir Putin is solely to blame for Ukraine’s partial dissolution. U.S.-Russia relations — already soured by the animus between their presidents — have worsened. A new cold war …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
