OP-ED
Paul Goble: Will Putin again use the Olympics as cover for new aggression, this time in Ukraine?
Russian tanks move along a street as children play with a toy truck in Tskhinvali on August 30, 2008.
Eight years ago today, when the world was focusing on the Olympics in Beijing, Vladimir Putin used this distraction as the occasion to launch his invasion of Georgia. Now, there are both indications and fears that he may use the world’s focus on the Olympiad in Rio to reignite Russian aggression in Ukraine.
