Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Mark Adomanis: For better or worse, Russia is not isolated
View of a traffic jam on the Sadovoe (Garden) Ring in front of skyscrapers of Moscow City business center during sunset on August 4, 2013.
During the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, the U.S. State Department has frequently invoked Russia's "isolation" from the "international community." To listen to the press releases coming out of Washington, Russia's actions in Crimea have made it an outcast, a rogue state that is no longer welcome among the community of "responsible nations."