Slate on Putin's blunder ?
alice malice
alicewmalice at gmail.com
Wed Mar 19 08:17:14 CDT 2014
A case can be made that Putin committed a huge strategic blunder in
this crisis. Had he simply stood by and waited for the elections--had
he used Ukrainian proxies to clamp down on the more militant
protesters rather than send black-masked storm troopers to occupy the
Crimean peninsula (which is under de facto Russian control and
populated largely by Russian loyalists)--he probably would have won in
the end. The Western nations, assured of the allegiances to democratic
forms, would have backed away. Ukraine would still need Russian aid
and trade to survive. Even with some movement by Ukraine toward the
EU, Moscow would retain its dominance.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2014/03/how_to_punish_vladimir_putin_for_the_ukraine_crimea_crisis.html
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