Putin Sees Ukraine Through a Lens of Grievance

New York Times: “After all of the pre-summit talk of land swaps and the technicalities of a possible cease-fire in Ukraine, President Vladimir V. Putin made clear after his meeting in Alaska with President Trump that his deepest concern was not an end to three and a half years of bloodshed. Rather, it was with what he called the ‘situation around Ukraine,’ code for his standard litany of grievances over Russia’s lost glory.”