Is it war? Following a day where the Kremlin ratcheted up the rhetoric, François Picard’s panel weighs the consequences of the call in Moscow to recognize Ukraine’s pro-Russian separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and Vladimir Putin’s ultimate aim.
Does he want another piece of Ukraine or the consideration an oil and gas producing, nuclear-armed superpower deserves in reviewing the security framework in his own backyard?


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