Which past is precedent for Putin’s Russia? As Russia moved - TopicsExpress



          

Which past is precedent for Putin’s Russia? As Russia moved into Crimea in March, annexed it and then began to create, promote and support separatist movements in eastern Ukraine, commentators and citizens alike worried about a new Cold War. Others compared Russian President Vladimir Putin’s land grab to Nazi Germany’s 1938 annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. The current crisis, however, is not a Cold War redux, though there are similarities, and Putin likely does not have genocidal ambitions. Today’s situation needs a new analogy. It demands a comprehension of the bigger historical and geopolitical picture, of the internal struggles of countries that, like the former Soviet Union, found themselves suddenly diminished. (11/30/14)
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:17:01 +0000

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