By BEN JUDAH
Politico Magazine - March 02, 2014
The West is blinking in disbelief – Vladimir Putin just invaded
Ukraine. German diplomats, French Eurocrats and American pundits are all
stunned. Why has Russia chosen to gamble its trillion-dollar ties with
the West?
Western leaders are stunned because they haven’t realized
Russia’s owners no longer respect Europeans the way they once did after
the Cold War. Russia thinks the West is no longer a crusading alliance.
Russia thinks the West is now all about the money.
Putin’s
henchmen know this personally. Russia’s rulers have been buying up
Europe for years. They have mansions and luxury flats from London’s West
End to France’s Cote d’Azure. Their children are safe at British
boarding and Swiss finishing schools. And their money is squirrelled
away in Austrian banks and British tax havens.
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