Putin calls West's bluff over Ukraine peace deal

You have to love the language in this, typical of the U.S. State Department-approved propaganda that is almost universal in the Western media: everything that happens that is against what this establishment wants is ascribed to Putin personally, as if he has identical interests with the rebels, endorses and favors whatever they do, and has full control over them (indeed, some sources seem to want us to believe that there are no "rebels" -- it's all just Russian troops). It's just beyond the pale ridiculous.

We won't even quote the Economist editorial that came out in the last day or two, which was little more than bile. That one went so far as criticizing Putin for intervening in the "self determination of the Maidan"; but totally ignored the much more obvert self-determination of the Crimean and Donbass independence referenda.