Mark Nuckols: Behind Putin’s Ukraine ‘unrest’ game
President Vladimir Putin's annexation of Crimea caught Western governments by surprise and has sparked fears of a new Cold War.
What is Vladimir Putin up to in fomenting phony “unrest” in eastern Ukraine? Don’t doubt for a minute that it is phony. None of the “uprisings” in Donetsk, Lugansk and Kharkov have any of the characteristics of the true revolution that chased Putin’s Ukrainian puppet, ex-President Viktor Yanukovych, out of power and into exile in Russia.
