![On February 24, the world will reflect on the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While attention is understandably focused on the current phase of Russia’s war, this week also marked ten years since the Kremlin first began its attack on Ukraine with the military takeover of Crimea. One decade on, it should now be painfully obvious that the international community’s inadequate response to Russia’s 2014 occupation of Crimea was a geopolitical blunder of historic proportions that emboldened Vladimir Putin and set the stage for the biggest European invasion since World War II. Putin’s unpunished Crimean crime set the stage for Russia’s 2022 invasion | INFBusiness.com](https://globalpolitics.info/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/471bccbe79cb4ae682547987e3457a71.jpg)
Putin’s unpunished Crimean crime set the stage for Russia’s 2022 invasion
On February 24, the world will reflect on the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. While attention is understandably focused on the current phase of Russia’s war, this…