Posted on 08/29/2014 12:04:05 PM PDT by elhombrelibre
Moscow will be content to watch Ukraine's new revolutionary leaders succumb to factional infighting and the pressures of the country's basket-case economy
========================================================= Vladimir Putin has been here before. A decade ago, when he was starting his second term as Russia’s President, a popular uprising broke out in Ukraine. It took no more than a few weeks to break the bond of centuries between the two biggest countries in Eastern Europe. The current revolution in Ukraine looks very different. Unlike the peaceful Orange Revolution, this one has been violent and has dragged on for months. But the questions it has forced Russia to ask are much the same: To what extent should we intervene? When do we cut our losses and accept Ukraine’s drift toward the West? What would we gain, and what would we risk, from using our military to regain control?
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It's Time for Europe to Get Tough With Russia
by Taboola
Vladimir Putin has been here before. A decade ago, when he
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You know, it’s easy to see black and white when you look back historically.
It separates the men from the boys in the day.
Wrong is wrong. You stand up to it, or it prevails and gets worse.
Yup.
Western experts on Russia are no more soothsayers than those in Russia itself.
The Kremlin has its own way of making fools out of those who “know” what it does.
http://www.amazon.com/The-That-Failed-Arthur-Koestler/dp/0231123957/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409341149&sr=8-1&keywords=THE+GOD+THAT+FAILED
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