This week U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman was in Europe, conducting a series of talks with Russian officials and transatlantic allies in hopes of defusing mounting tension between Russia and Ukraine. For the past several months, Russia amassed over 100,000 troops along Ukraine’s eastern border, the largest such buildup since the first time Russia invaded modern Ukraine, back in 2014. (It’s important to remember that we’ve seen this movie before; then, as now, the Kremlin was the instigator, funder, and perpetuator of the conflict.)
The talks seem to have yielded little in the way of diplomatic solutions... read more on Revue!