Call it resource-politik: a new riff on the old notion of realpolitik -- this time, a power politics rooted in the pursuit of resource access. That's the common thread running through three developments in recent weeks involving Vladimir Putin's not-so-new "Novorossiya." Secretary of State John Kerry has chided Russia's ruler on his retro turn to 19th Century politics, but the Great Game seems to be a perfectly workable way for Russia to pursue a 21st Century path toward something approximating its 20th Century heyday.
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