Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Paul Goble: For Putin, Russia’s isolation is a strategy not a misfortune
Demonstrators take part in a protest against Russia and President Vladimir Putin on March 26, 2015 in front of the White House in Washington, DC.
Most analysts have suggested that sanctions and international isolation were a cost Vladimir Putin was willing to pay in order to get his way in Ukraine, but Andrey Lipsky, an editor of "Novaya gazeta,"says that is exactly backwards: the Kremlin leader wanted isolation and launched his Ukrainian campaign to get it.
