BROUGHT DOWN

 Vladimir Putin, reconsidered

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/07/20/putins-grand-strategy-is-failing/
Over the past few months critics have warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a cunning strategist and the mastermind of a dangerous new foreign policy. He is playing the long game, they say, making moves in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine as part of a program to