Saturday, July 19, 2014
Window on Eurasia: Putin Now Faces ‘Existential’ Choice — War Abroad or Civil War at Home, Piontkovsky Says
Paul Goble
Staunton, July 19 – Vladimir Putin now faces “an existential choice” between a war with the West and a civil war at home with radical nationalists who have been inspired by the Kremlin leader’s own words and actions and who are unlikely to be willing to do nothing if he backs down in the face of Western pressure, according to Andrey Piontkovsky.
The shooting down of the Malaysian airliner, the Russian analyst says, only sharpens this choice and hence the tragedy for all involved because that criminal action “finally buries the insane chimera of the Russian World” and thus deepens “the crisis of the Putin regime” (szona.org/%d0%ba%d0%be%d1%89%d0%b5%d0%b5%d0%b2%d0%b0-%d1%81%d0%bc%d0%b5%d1%80%d1%82%d1%8c-%d0%bf%d1%83%d1%82%d0%b8%d0%bd%d0%b8%d0%b7%d0%bc%d0%b0/).
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