Editorial Board
Putin's Ukraine Peace Offer Is a Trojan Horse
Russia wants UN peacekeepers to keep its latest "frozen conflict" from thawing.
A very strong strongman.
Photographer: Dmitry Serebryakov/AFP/Getty ImagesNo, Vladimir Putin has not suddenly become a man of peace. His recent overture in Ukraine should be seen for what it is -- an effort to further his own interests -- and treated as such.
After the Russian president called for bringing United Nations peacekeepers into the Ukraine conflict, Germany's foreign minister said he was "very glad" about the "surprising" development from a Kremlin that had previously shunned calls for an international force. Nobody who knows Putin well should be so gullible.