Merkel's difficult mission to Obama

``... the western propaganda can no longer hide that the Ukrainian military is steadily falling apart. Notwithstanding the American bluster of threatening to send weapons to Kiev, Washington too would know that such a move would actually make very little difference to the balance of forces on the ground in a near term and might even exacerbate it insofar as a direct confrontation with Moscow might ensue.'' -- See also How Obama can lose gracefully on Ukraine, another excellent piece from the same author (M. K. Bhadrakumar).