High Crimeas and Misdeamenors 0
The Lebanon Daily Star takes a relatively balanced look at events in the Crimea, which is a lot closer to Lebanon than it is to the U. S. A. A nugget:
The West has no choice but to impose sanctions on Putin’s Russia, and they will now come fast and furious. But they are unlikely to be anything more than punitive, with no coercive power to reverse facts on the ground in Crimea.A sanctioned Russia – and a one that maintains its own set of sanctions – will be the new reality. But the great historic task remains to coax Russia back in the direction of membership in the international community.
Read the rest. You’ll learn stuff that has not been sufficiently addressed in our own domestic media.
