Once again Putin has blood on his hands. Two nights ago, CNN
reported that a woman went out to get something from a store and returned to
find her building demolished and her three children dead. The shelling may have
come from the Ukrainians trying to stop the Russian-based rebels. I'm sure the
Russians will use this in their propaganda.
However, the fact remains that the fighting in eastern
Ukraine exists because Putin backs the rebels and sends Russian troops into the
area to assist them. Without Russian support things would be much quieter in
the Ukraine. Europeans would like to see peace in the region and Putin counts
on that. So the leaders of France and Germany have agreed to another cease-fire
which will last as long as Putin wants it to. Once again, he will send in
troops and break the cease-fire, and the Europeans will trudge back to Moscow
to ask for another one.
In some ways, Putin learned some lessons from Hitler. Back
then Europe desperately wanted peace and Hitler would make nice, until it was
time for his next move. It's not wrong to want a world that's better, but it's
dysfunctional not to understand the czar of Russia and his bag of tricks.
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