Putin’s Fantasy Island

“Putin famously said that Ukraine “isn’t even really a country.” And here he is again peddling his longstanding meme that the Ukrainians themselves have no agency of their own. They are nothing but the playthings of great powers. Their army isn’t even their army. And right now, they’re just NATO pawns.And this belief is actually pretty widespread in the Russian elite. In a recent article, political analyst Aleksandr Sytnik provided an eye-opening inside look at how decisions were made in the run-up to the Ukraine crisis.“

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1-02-2015 16.32 | Door: Stommeling Jones | Categorie: Losse skakels, Rusland