Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Mark Adomanis: The nation accuses Ukraine of plotting to seize its own territory
Ukrainian soldier looks through his binoculars as he guards the checkpoint near the eastern Ukrainian city of Debaltsevo, Donetsk region on August 2, 2014.
Stephen Cohen has been drawing a fair amount of criticism for his iconoclastic coverage of Russia and Ukraine. Personally I was always a bit sympathetic to Cohen because of his excellent writing on the 1990′s: few other American analysts are as willing as he to talk about the economic and social catastrophe that befell Russia during its period of "reform."