Weak or Strong, Obama Can't Save Ukraine -- Marc Champion, Bloomberg
A good deal of U.S. commentary on Ukraine has focused on whether President Obama is being tough enough. The debate is both unrevealing and unhelpful to resolving the serious issue of how to handle a newly expansionist and nationalist Russia.
It is unrevealing because any U.S. leader would struggle to contain Russian actions in the space that falls within Russia's former empire and outside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. George W. Bush failed to prevent the Russian invasion and dismemberment of Georgia in 2008. And history is littered with other failures to change Russian and Soviet behavior, as the Top 10 list below attests.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
Why Aren’t Sanctions Stopping Putin? -- Meghan L. O’Sullivan, Daily Beast
Russian Dilemma: Why EU Sanctions are a Bluff -- Christoph Schult, Jörg Schindler and Ralf Neukirch, Spiegel Online
Putin and the Dogs of War -- Kim Zigfeld, American Thinker
What Mr. Putin Can’t Control -- New York Times editorial
Saudi Arabia Recalibrates -- Hassan Hassan & Michael Weiss, American Interest
Syrian Regime Hasn't Abandoned Chemical Weapons -- Christoph Reuter, Spiegel Online
The Mideast peace gap: Why Kerry has failed -- Aaron David Miller, McClatchy News/L.A. Times
Its EU dream thwarted, Turkey rejects 90 million-euro Cyprus fine -- Alexander Christie-Miller, CSM
How The West Underestimated Boko Haram -- Christian Putsch, Real Clear World, Worldcrunch
Is #BringBackOurGirls a Band-Aid solution for Nigeria? -- John Vandiver, Stars and Stripes
Power Vacuums and Green Lights in the South China Sea -- Max Boot, Commentary
Venezuela: Washington’s Forgotten Revolution -- Bridget Johnson, PJ Media
Inside The Obama Administration Fight Over The Drone Memo -- Zeke J Miller, Time
Edward Snowden's Other Motive for Leaking -- Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic
Ordering Google to Forget -- New York Times editorial
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