Putin’s Destabilization of Ukraine Overshadows Today’s Crimean Vote

Russia’s invasion of Crimea and today’s rigged Anschluss referendum are sideshows to the main event – Putin’s ongoing destabilization of Ukraine. International diplomacy can deal with armed interventions and the violation of international treaties, but it is helpless in the face of the coordinated covert disinformatsia, maskirovania, and destabilatsia at which Putin’s KGB (now called the FSB) excels. Putin can respond to charges of economic and political sabotage against Ukraine with an expression of innocence and surprise: “Who me? 

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