Ukraine-Russia: what Putin is up to

“Paranoiac”, released in a pithy judgment, on the evening of February 21, a source from the Élysée. Vladimir Putin had just called Ukraine an “American colony” run by a “puppet regime”. It owes its existence on “Russian historic lands” only to a bad way done to the Russian people a century ago by the Bolshevik leader Lenin. Rarely has the obsidional complex of the master of the Kremlin appeared so clearly as on that fateful day when he threw the Minsk agreements of 2015 into the basket and recognized by ukase the “independence” of the two rump entities of Donetsk and Luhansk in the Don basin.

A few hours later, a column of Russian tanks entered the two wrested “republics”, with their 3 milli…