Thursday, January 5, 2006
The International Herald Tribune is hitting the Ukraine-gas-Putin story pretty hard. This editorial summarizes the situation pretty well, claiming that Putin's use energy as a political weapon undermines his international credibility. Celeste A. Wallander focuses more on what it means for the rest of the world in terms of energy security. And Anatol Lieven says the crisis illustrates how "the West's strategy toward Ukraine has been founded on a bizarre illusion."
