AP---do you really know the multiple reasons that Putin used in his Duma speech on the Crimea that he threw in the face of the West that he used as his justification for moving into the Crimea and wanting eastern Ukraine?
Do you really think he is going to just negotiate those driving ideas of his that he expressed to the Russian people in front of the assembled Duma--away?
He views this current struggle a Russian resistance to the decadent values of the West and his deep fear of the Colored Revolts.
Then you do not understand the current Russian ethnic nationalist imperialism which some call a Russian form of fascism.
When was the last time the US ever got an armed nationalist or a war of liberation movement to "negotiate" heck we cannot even get the Israeli's to halt the bombing of civilians in UN flagged schools.
That is the "moral" power that JMA writes about.
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