Patrick Wintour, Guardian: Expulsions of Russians are pushback against Putin's hybrid warfare
Moscow saw the UK as isolated but response shows other governments have lost patience
The expulsions of Russian diplomats on Monday reflect how widely Vladimir Putin has attempted to wage his brand of hybrid warfare and how many leaders and their intelligence agencies he has angered in the process.
Even before the Salisbury poisoning, many governments had lost patience with Vladimir Putin’s grey war for domestic reasons of their own. Their response is not just an act of solidarity with the UK but a collective pushback.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- March 26, 2018
Spy poisoning: What the diplomat expulsions mean for Russia -- Jonathan Marcus, BBC
Why The U.S. Just Shut Down Russia’s Spy Hub in Seattle -- Adam Rawnsley, Daily Beast
US punishes Russia but Trump hedges bets on Putin -- Stephen Collinson and Zachary Cohen, CNN
Putin Won. But Russia Is Losing -- Ian Bremmer, Time
Beijing quietly presses ahead with its expansionist agenda in the South China Sea -- Brahma Chellaney, The National
Why the South China Sea is critical to security -- Brahma Chellaney, Japan Times
Is Trump ready to dump Pakistan? -- Dan De Luce, Foreign Policy
Regional cooperation on Afghanistan remains a chimera -- M.K. Bhadrakumar, Asia Times
Why Houthis have added fuel to fire with missile attacks on Saudi Arabia -- Nic Robertson, CNN
Options to Manage the Kingdom of Saudia Arabia’s Nuclear Ambitions -- Joshua Urness, RCD
Palestinians set to reject US peace plan -- Uri Savir, Al-Monitor
When the US withdraws from the Iran nuclear deal, expect three stark consequences -- David Rothkopf, The National
Catalan Separatists Need to Stop the Pointless Games -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
Is Facebook contributing to genocide in Myanmar? -- Lee Short, Asia Times
Can Jim Mattis Hold the Line in Trump’s ‘War Cabinet’? -- New York Times Magazine
