Just How Far Will the Empire Strike Back ?
▻http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2014/08/28/just_how_far_will_the_empire_strike_back
j’ai justement évoqué cette possibilité [de continuité territoriale] dans un post seenthis un peu plus tôt ce matin [et foreign Policiy parle ici d’axe d’expansion...]
Throughout the crisis in eastern Ukraine, a persistent mystery has complicated efforts to resolve a standoff that has erupted into open warfare: What does Russian President Vladimir Putin want?
In the last two days, Russian troops have attempted to relieve pressure on their separatist allies in Donetsk and Luhansk by opening what amounts to a third front south of the two breakaway cities. On Wednesday, Ukrainian troops, who had been steadily advancing on separatist forces in the east, beat a hasty retreat from Novoazovsk, where they were routed by troops and armor streaming across the Russian border. Novoazovsk lies a mere 20 miles from the southeastern port city of Mariupol, a city of 500,000.
