Meanwhile, life is a bit more sour for everyone inside what is sometimes called the international community. Leonid Kalashnikov, vice chairman of the foreign-affairs committee of Russia’s State Duma, summed things up well after the legislature’s unanimous vote to authorize Russian troops in Ukraine. There will be no lasting damage, he said, because there is nothing to damage. “We already don’t trust each other,” he said of the West. “They say their bit, we say ours. And it doesn’t seem to matter.” –With reporting by Michael Crowley/With Secretary Kerry, Rana Foroohar/New York, Jay Newton-Small/Washington, Diana Kulchitskaya/Moscow and Hannah Beech/Beijing TIME MAGAZINE This appears in the March 17, 2014 issue of TIME.
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