The West is stupidly providing Putin with this beneficial publicity at a moment when the falling price of oil, and the ruble devaluation that inevitably follows it, threaten his popular support. Putin is then free to take out his frustration on Ukraine, already battered, penniless and ineptly ruled. Convinced that the government in Kiev consists of Western puppets, Putin will seek to punish the West by further torturing the weak nation.
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