Aug 282014
Earlier this summer, my mom made some worried comments about the violence in Ukraine. I told her that things would calm down soon because Putin would realize that further intervention wasn’t worth the risk of tougher sanctions. Silly me. Putin has been far craftier with his Ukrainian strategy, engaging in a kind of slow-motion invasion that has has sown confusion and hesitancy among Western leaders. I still doubt that a shooting war will erupt between NATO and Russia, but tensions could easily escalate if either side misread’s the other’s intentions.
World affairs have been something of a horror show this summer and it would be nice if the human race could spend the rest of the year not bearing witness to a slowly unfolding global crisis.
