Russia's War Against Ukraine
OP-ED
Tony Karon: If you thought things were bad this year, wait until 2015
A man walks past the damaged residential building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Shakhtarsk on Dec. 21, 2014.
Those in Washington nostalgic for the heady days of empire will proclaim 2014 as the year the Cold War resumed: Russia annexed Crimea and backed a secessionist movement in eastern Ukraine after its ally in Kyiv was overthrown by a western-backed rebellion.