AThus, Putin took the plunge.
At the end of an ubiquitous Council where he chastised his henchmen like in a bad Lubitsch film, he recognized the independence of the separatist entities of Donbass.
And here is the outraged West, dismembered Ukraine, and the thousands of women and men who have been fighting for eight years to keep Luhansk and Donetsk free and nervous.
In the uncertainty of the next provocation, or misinformation, that the great paranoiac of the Kremlin has in store for us, we will endeavor to recall this.
1. Russia has no rights over Ukraine. Any. No more that of amputating it today than of dictating to it, tomorrow, its alliances. Geopolitics, of course, is a matter of power relations. But the right is the dr…
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