"Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." George Orwell

December 27, 2004

Forcing Russia's Hand by Nicholas Berry

President Vladimir Putin's blatant intervention in Ukraine's presidential election has spawned an array of commentary that the Russian president is trying to re-establish the Soviet empire. What is missing from this analysis is one very important fact. The United States and Western Europe have forced Putin's hand. It is the West that has rekindled Russia's international ambitions, ambitions hardly noticeable under Boris Yeltsin.

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