utin-Can-Win
"We now know that Moscow has been running a program for years to undermine the actual independence of her neighbors while maintaining the illusion that they are still free - just as during the Cold War, Hungary, Poland, or any of the Warsaw Pact nations may have been legally independent, but they were in fact under the control of the Kremlin. This is the power that Putin wants Russia to have once again."Spot on analysis I think. Of course Putin is making his move on Ukraine now because he knows that President Obama doesn't care enough to do anything substantive to stop him. Putin has the next 33 months to push as far as he can in solidifying the domination of Russia's neighbors before a new US administration, perhaps one willing to take a firmer stance toward Russian aggression, takes office. The danger is that Putin will push too far in his
efforts to take advantage of the current situation such that even President Obama will be forced to react, in spite of his indifference to foreign affairs. That could lead to direct conflict and no one can predict what the outcome of that might be.
By Epictetus
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