Has the west fallen for Putin’s tricks in Ukraine?

Russia wants to see Nato rolled back, and Ukraine is far from its only pawn in the game

A new batch of military aid from the US arrives at Boryspil International Airport, Kyiv Region, northern Ukraine. 

The west has been fixated for more than two months on Russian preparations to mount a new land invasion of Ukraine. 

Except, it hasn’t happened — and it’s not likely to happen, at least in the form that’s most commonly imagined.