Reading the tea leaves a week before Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin meet in Geneva puts a premium on the kind of media analysis we old-school - Ray McGovern for Antiwar.com Original
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s stern warning earlier today not to cross what he called Russia’s red line needs to be taken seriously. The more so, as Russia builds up its military capability to respond to any provocations from hotheads in Ukraine and from those in Washington telling them they can give Russia a bloody nose and escape retaliation.
Putin prefaced his unusually pointed remarks by saying Russia wants good relations … including, by the way, those with whom we have not been getting along lately, to put it mildly. We really do not want to burn bridges. In a clear effort to caution provocateurs not only in Kiev, but also in Washington and other NATO capitals, Putin added this warning:
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