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One of the major shortcomings of the post—revolutionary government in Ukraine is the inability to communicate properly with the outside world, Anne Applebaum, a prominent Pulitzer Prize winning author and a columnist for The Washington Post agrees.

“It’s not a big secret to most of us which are watching this and tracking this but I think the challenge that we face is that a broader general public which isn’t paying all that much attention,” Damon Wilson, vice—president of the Atlantic Council said of Russia’s direct intervention in Ukraine.

Putin is not a strategist, he is a tactician. This means he does not have a long term plan, said Mark Galeotti professor of global affairs at New York University.