Russia To NATO: Drop Dead
John Schindler
BusinessInsider.com
Mar. 20, 2014
Clearly Vladimir Putin did not heed my advice to cool it after his bloodless seizure of Crimea. Instead, he has doubled down, issuing a fire-breathing speech before the Duma, filled with Russian nationalist paeans and Chekist threats.
Violence in Ukraine provoked by the Russian military has become serious, and no more is this a bloodless happening. It is clear that the Kremlin has conquest on its mind and where this crisis goes from here is anybody’s guess but I feel safe in saying: nowhere good.
The Western response to this has been frankly modest. Moscow has publicly mocked the decidedly unpunitive sanctions announced by the United States, and the even more limited ones coming from the European Union.
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