Putin's End-Game: Expansion or Self-Destruction?

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'You think I’m not hard enough to invade? You think I care what the West does? You’re wrong. And you need to be afraid, very afraid.'

That, in essence, is the message Russian President Vladimir Putin is sending to Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko by brazenly pushing Russian troops into Ukraine proper

See also: Vladimir Putin's Distorted Reality

Over the last months the barely credible Ukrainian army has surprised many by pushing back Putin’s proxy forces in the east of the country. The murky war there was meant to drag on for longer to destabilize Kiev until it begged for peace on Putin’s terms. With that plan failing, Putin has upped the ante by sending in troop — forcing Kiev to the wall Read more...

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