The institutional and political inertia accorded the "Washington rules" of international geopolitics may be causing the West to severely misconstrue the depth of Russian interests in the Ukraine.
One reason for progressivism is the facility with which exogenous actors apparently manipulate revolutions to serve quite different goals from those espoused by indigenous adherents.
Russia is vowing to keep its troops in the Ukrainian region of Crimea in what has become Moscow's biggest confrontation with the West since the Cold War.
Despite the fact that we assume the Cold War is long over, both contemporary propaganda as well as US actions belie that "fact," as evidenced by current US anti-communist …
Russia's parliament has approved President Putin's request for the use of force inside neighboring Ukraine, as the latest neocon-approved "regime change" threatens to inflict grave damage on international relations.