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This world view—a noxious compound of KGB cynicism and increasingly messianic Russian nationalism—propelled him into Ukraine. The idea that his adventurism will end in the Donbas is as naive as the theory that he would be satisfied when his troops wrenched Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia in 2008. This week Mr Putin rattled his sabre at Kazakhstan, still ruled by the elderly Nursultan Nazarbayev: any succession squabble would be an opportunity. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, small, ex-Soviet countries, have Russian-speaking minorities of the kind Mr Putin has undertaken to “protect”. economist/news/leaders/21615582-sad-reality-vladimir-putin-winning-ukraine-west-must-steel-itself?fsrc=nlw%7Chig%7C5-09-2014%7C53d696ecfdd5acdd120004a5%7CNA
Posted on: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 02:26:54 +0000

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