Don’t look now, but Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine isn’t going how he expected.
While the Ukrainian army and its allied militias continue to skirmish with the Russian-backed separatists (and sometimes the Russian army itself) in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions—almost 100 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed so far this year according to a Ukraine’s defense ministry spokesman Andriy Petrenko—the larger contest is being decided in, of all places, Brussels.
To borrow from George W. Bush, Putin likely “misunderestimated” the Western response to Russian aggression. on WeeklyStandard.com …read more
Source: The Weekly Standard
