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If you think you understand what Putin’s doing in Ukraine, you’re not paying enough attention

Russia’s foreign policy has become a ‘Wizard of Oz’ mixture of fake grandiosity and real menace

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

7 June 2014

9:00 AM

Vladimir Putin has won in Ukraine. Russia is on the verge of getting de facto control of eastern Ukraine, destabilising the remainder, and establishing its president’s cherished Eurasian Union. The West is nowhere — weak, disunited, and out-strategised by a master of geopolitics.

Hang on, that’s all wrong. Crimea was the high-water mark of Putin’s neo-imperialist vision.

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John O’Sullivan is director of the Danube Institute in Budapest and co-founder of Twenty-First Century Initiatives in Washington.

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