Commentary: Easing sanctions rewards Putin

Easing sanctions rewards Putin

FILE/Emilio Morenatti/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Easing sanctions rewards Putin

Anti-Yanukovych protesters ride on top of an army armored vehicle at Kyiv protests in early 2014.

Easing sanctions rewards Putin

FILE/Alexander Zemlianichen/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Easing sanctions rewards Putin

Zinaida Patskan, 80, stands in her destroyed house after a shelling from Ukrainian government forces.

Easing sanctions rewards Putin

FILE/PAVEL GOLOVKIN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Easing sanctions rewards Putin

In Russia, a rally supports Crimea joining Russia, with banners and portraits of Russian President Vladimir Putin.



Posted: Sunday, January 25, 2015 12:00 am

Commentary: Easing sanctions rewards Putin

BY LAWRENCE J. HAAS

Fredericksburg.com

|
0 comments

With the United States understandably focused on Islamist threats to the civilized world, Russia’s Vladimir Putin continues to whittle away at the post-Cold War architecture of global relations by ignoring his commitment to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty and boosting support for Russian-backed rebels.

Putin’s efforts to undermine Ukraine, coming on top of his annexation of Crimea—which the world apparently has now accepted as fact—sends a dangerous signal not only to him but to other hungry strongmen about whether the U.S.-led free world will maintain order or let the norms of global relations wither away.

Subscription Required


An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety.


You need an online service to view this article in its entirety.

Have an online subscription?


Login Now

Login


Login Now

Login

Posted in
Commentary

on

Sunday, January 25, 2015 12:00 am.


| Tags:


Putin,



Crimea,



Ukraine,



Obama,



U.s.,



Sanctions