CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS January 30, 2022 15:03:00
He lost ukraine. owen matthews writes in a thought-provoking essay. after a declared independence in 1991 ukraine was divided between an unabashedly pro russia segment of their popula ligs an nationalistic one. by plunging eastern ukraine into open conflict matthews points out putin has energized ukrainian nationalism and fed a growing anti-russian sentiment. and the math doesn't help. putin took millions of pro-russian ukrainians in crimea in the donbas out of the country's political calculus. those in the donbas don't vote in ukrainian elections because the area is too unstable. as a result,...