By now, we should have learned: deals with predator states bent on conquest – whether Nazi Germany then or Russia today – don't buy peace; they invite war. In the last century, Europe didn't avert ...

when Luhansk fell under effective Russian control, with all of his schooling in the Russian proxy ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ [‘LPR’]. He is, in short, one of the first of a generation whom Russia has ...