Putin’s victory: keeping Ukraine boiling on a low flame
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The announcement Wednesday morning of a cease-fire in eastern Ukraine soon proved to be premature and far from accurate. It did prove though that Ukraine, after losing wide swathes of its sovereign territory, is about to fold after realizing that the West is not going to back it against Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin can chalk up another region which has now become a pro-Russian autonomy, destabilizing…