Edward Lucas: Who is to blame?
Pro-Kremlin activists take part in a rally and a concert near the Kremlin in central Moscow on March 18, 2015, to mark one year since Russia's President Vladimir Putin signed off on the annexation of Crimea in a epochal shift that ruptured ties with Ukraine.
I recently teased a senior British official by saying that the establishment believes that Vladimir Putin has merely, if regrettably, misperceived Russia’s best interests. But eventually the Russian leader would come round, and realize that the West’s way is the best way.
