We are not your buffer zone
Every Western analysis of this war has a protagonist problem. The expansion critics star the United States. The revanchism analysts star Putin. The structural camp stars the system. In all three versions, Ukraine is the terrain the story happens on....
The soldiers wore no insignia
They moved through Simferopol in unmarked vehicles, surrounded the Crimean parliament, and raised the Russian flag on February 27, 2014. Putin denied they were Russian. Then he admitted it on camera, with a smirk....