Syria, Ukrainian journalist Yurii Rudenia says, “is the alternative history of Ukraine,” of what would have happened had Viktor Yanukovych crushed the Maidan early on, just as “Ukraine is an alternative history of Syria,” of what might have occurred had Bashar al-Assad “not unleashed terror” against his own people. The consequences in the latter case … Continue reading Syria shows what Ukraine’s fate could have been under Yanukovych