[net-gold] COUNTRIES: RUSSIA, UKRAINE: What Putin Wants, and How He Plans to Get It
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- Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 11:45:24 -0400 (EDT)
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COUNTRIES: RUSSIA, UKRAINE:
What Putin Wants, and How He Plans to Get It
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What Putin Wants, and How He Plans to Get It
The Russian president is a product of the 20th century KGB. He knows that
subversion is much cheaper than invasion.
By Doyle McManus
April 20, 2014
Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/
la-oe-mcmanus-column-ukraine-putin-
20140420,0,1372825.column#axzz30fzIWg6v
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/l7y7elr
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It was tempting to look at last week's diplomatic agreement to pull
Ukraine back from the brink of war and see the beginning of a grand
compromise between Russia and the West.
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Tempting, but mistaken.
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Vladimir Putin is still winning most of what he wants in Ukraine, and he's
winning it more cheaply and more elegantly than he would by launching a
full-scale military invasion.
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Last week's agreement, which called on pro-Russia militias to end their
occupation of government buildings, was probably only a speed bump on the
way toward bringing all of Ukraine under Moscow's influence.
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That's not only the view of seasoned Russia watchers; it's also the fear
of many officials inside the Obama administration.
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President Obama could use a diplomatic win, but there wasn't a shred of
triumphalism or even optimism in his description of last week's accord.
"I don't think we can be sure of anything," Obama told reporters. "There
is the possibility, the prospect, that diplomacy may de-escalate the
situation.... But I don't think, given past performance, that we can count
on that."
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Or even given present performance. While Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov was in Geneva drafting the joint agreement on Ukraine, Putin was
speaking at a news conference in Moscow, and he wasn't sounding like a man
in the mood for concessions. "It's New Russia," he trumpeted. "Kharkiv,
Lugansk, Donetsk, Odessa were not part of Ukraine in czarist times; they
were transferred in 1920. Why? God knows."
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Actually, every Russian historian knows: Lenin drew those borders to make
sure Ukraine's population included plenty of reliable Russians.
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Putin said reports that Russian troops were among the insurgents in those
cities were "rubbish." He called the Ukrainian government illegitimate.
And he said he had a duty to protect the people of what he called "the
Russian southeast."
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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