Russia's War Against Ukraine
Thomas L. Friedman: Follow the money
Workers dismantle a Ukranian language inscription reading \"The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea\" in central Simferopol on March 18, 2014. Russian president Vladimir Putin caused an outcry today when he signed a treaty making Crimea part of Russia, just weeks after pro-Russian forces seized the peninsula following the ouster of Ukraine's pro-Kremlin president Viktor Yanukovych. AFP PHOTO/ Filippo MONTEFORTE
If you follow the debates about Ukraine, you can see three trends: those who use the crisis for humor, those who use it to reinforce preconceived views and those trying to figure out if it’s telling us something new about today’s world.
