THE situation in Ukraine did not start with Vladimir Putin's February 24 invasion.
It has a long history, and the article I'm about to quote from takes that history back hundreds of years.
It's by retired US public servant, Richard C. Cook, now 75, who became a whistleblower after the Challenger space shuttle disaster of 1986, leaking documents showing NASA was warned of various problems. He moved to the US Treasury, where he stayed until his retirement in 2007.
