Ukraine seems like so three weeks ago. (Remember MH-17?) First came Gaza, then Iraq, and we stopped paying attention to it. But, steadily, the Ukranian military has made gains against the overmatched separatists backed by the Russian intelligence services. Kiev is winning the war. Now Moscow apparently has 20,000 troops nearby, poised to invade to bail them out.
Will Putin play this last card? It would be the final, brutal, miscalculation after a series of blunders on his part. Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph argues that Putin acted out of an obsolete Cold War mentality and had no chance of standing up to the West's financial power. See Russia's misplayed gambit.
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