Yesterday I wrote Putin might do something ugly in response to the EU accepting Ukraine and Moldova as candidates whose desire to join the EU will be under study by the existing members. Today I read that, in a speech in St. Petersburg he indicated it was not a big deal since, unlike NATO, “the EU is not a military alliance.”
He sounds like a guy backed into a corner claiming he is there by choice, at least to me. His situation at home may be more precarious than it superficially appears.
