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Country's population spoke russian as their first language. putin's dilemma is that ukraine is in slow motion escaping russia's grasp. in the last decade the country has become more independent, democratic and pro-western. the west has been cooperating and assisting in an ever greater measure but putin is also probably cautious of the reality that an outright russian invasion would create what he loathes most, a permanently anti-russian ukraine. his goal, then, is to get the americans and europeans to recognize that ukrainian membership in nato is a step too far. he also wants kyiv to recogniz...

Secession. to the liberal reformer gorbachev russian leaders have regarded ukraine as fundamentally tied to moscow. ukraine's first two presidents while asserting the country's newfound independence were careful not to break too sharply with moscow. according to a census conducted in 2001 almost 30% of the country's population spoke russian as their first language. putin's dilemma is that ukraine is in slow motion escaping russia's grasp. in the last decade the country has become more independent, democratic and pro-western. the west has been cooperating and assisting in an ever greater measur...

Daily. and so when we are talking about an invasion we are talking about the large scale escalation of a war that has been going on. this is an important thing to keep in mind because, for ukrainians, it is -- what is actually going to change, for one thing. how do we know there is a qualitative shift and what is happening to us? but also there is a real sense of, on the one hand, people realizing how awful the possibility of a bigger warriors. and on the other hand, there is a real cohesive sense of national mobilization. and american and kremlin promoted tropes that are prevalent in the u.s....

Airports in crimea. within a couple of weeks the whole of crimea was under the control of these little green men. they were clearly pro-russia, and they spoke russian, and they're heavily armed with russian weapons. but russian president vladimir putin insisted they were not russian troops. he said they were local self-defense forces acting on their own. he couldn't help but if the people of crimea liked russia more than they like the pro western in ukraine. the confusion led to headlines like this one from the bbc, russians in quotation mark occupied crimea airports. so, it was clear to every...

More than they like the pro western in ukraine. the confusion led to headlines like this one from the bbc, russians in quotation mark occupied crimea airports. so, it was clear to everybody on the ground in crimea that these were russian soldiers in disguise. that the entire russian government is denying from top to bottom. that they were russian soldiers. nato and the u.s. kind of flummoxed on how to respond, how do you stop invasion when you cannot even get everyone to agree that invasion is happening? then vice president joe biden flew to poland to reassure eastern european allies that the ...