Russia's War Against Ukraine
Anne Applebaum: Russia will never be like us
People hold their Ukrainian national flags and a poster featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin and reading \"Stop Putin\" as they demonstrate in front of the Russian Ambassy in Berlin on March 17, 2014. Crimea declared independence on March 17 and applied to join Russia while the Kremlin braced for sanctions after the flashpoint peninsula voted to leave Ukraine in a ballot that will likely fan the worst East-West tensions since the Cold War.
We’ve spent 20 years trying to make it a Western country. Bad idea.
