Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
David J. Kramer: The dangerous Mr. Putin
Russia's President Vladimir Putin visits the construction site of a new football stadium, one of the future venues of the 2018 World Cup, in Samara on July 21, 2014.
Over the past several months, President Obama and his Western colleagues have engaged with Vladimir Putin on numerous occasions to try to resolve the crisis in Ukraine. Obama and Putin have spoken nine times and met briefly in France in June; German Chancellor Angela Merkel has spoken with Putin on close to 40 occasions and met him in France as well as in Brazil during the World Cup.
