As Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine enters its third week, the naughty little law of unintended consequences is lifting its head above the parapet.
The most striking illustration of this so far is the debunking of Putin’s brazen claim that there is not and has never been a Ukrainian nation and that Ukraine is nothing but Russia misspelled. Putin insisted that Ukraine was nothing but a creation of Lenin, ignoring the fact that it was Lenin who signed away Ukraine to the Germans in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk.
