RUSSIA, UKRAINE ET AL: WHAT NEXT?
The author of the following is Patrick Armstrong, a distinguished Canadian analyst and expert on all things Russia. He gave TGP permission to post his latest piece, which appeared first on Pat Lang’s blog (https://turcopolier.com/).
By Patrick Armstrong
To Moscow, Ukraine is not the problem, Washington is. Or, as Putin might put it: Tabaqui does what Shere Khan tells him to and there is no point in dealing with him, go straight to Shere Khan. That is what Moscow is trying to do with its treaty proposals.
For the same reason, Moscow is not much concerned with what the EU or NATO says; it assesses that they are Tabaquis too.
The current propaganda meme in Washington is that Russia is going to “invade Ukraine” and absorb it.
