Vladimir Putin is running – and rather successfully, we might add – a shell game that attempts to hide the reality that nothing has changed with him. His tactics change but the goal remains – as always – gaining a free hand to subjugate Ukraine and return it as part of a new Russian empire. Allowing him to succeed would represent the greatest failure imaginable for the West – for Ukraine – and ultimately for peace in the world.
What Putin wants you to forget:
Ukraine will not forget and neither should anyone who believes that democracy – real democracy with all the votes counted – remains the best way forward for the world.
For more on this subject, access Brian Whitmore’s Daily Vertical at the link below:
http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-ve ... ber-ukraine/27375035.html