Unfortunately, there are some very hot topics. Among all of them, the potential United States plan to deliver heavy weapons to Kiev. Clearly, should that happen, Minsk talks would be a fiasco.
In the meantime, Europe is hitting the brakes: Paris and Berlin clearly stated that weapons delivery can’t be considered as a valuable option. From Munich Security Conference, Angela Merkel said that it is not imaginable a situation in which a better equipped Ukrainian army would make Putin so impressed that he thinks he is losing militarily. From Moscow’s point of view, US plan would only cause further troubles: according to Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov it would be a plan fraught with unpredictable consequences.
It is unclear how far Russia is willing to go. It seems, though, that Russian arm wrestling over Ukraine is the umpteenth effort of a wounded super power to prove itself strong: is the internal economic crisis pushing the Kremlin for a political victory?
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