The public Western response to Russian President Vladimir Putin rattling the cage with Ukraine last week has been reasonably unified. All the statements released over the course of the weekend, from Paris, Washington, and Brussels, have urged that cooler heads prevail, have reiterated that Crimea belongs to Ukraine and is currently being occupied by Russia, and have all pointed to the Minsk Agreement was the only way forward for negotiations.That last part about Minsk was critical, as it appeared from Putin’s statement last week that he was interested in pushing the West to renegotiate some kind of new agreement, possibly …read more
Source: The American Interest
