Commentary With the Genocide Olympics in Beijing no longer a distraction, the world’s attention is increasingly focused on the crisis in Ukraine. While there are other major events unfolding around the world—including the Canadian government’s use of force on peaceful truckers in Ottawa and communist China’s growing threats against Taiwan—one of the most critical geopolitical situations in the world involves the staging of some 200,000 Russian military personnel and hardware around the periphery of the former Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. And therein lies the crux of the matter, for Ukraine was once a part of the greater Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), and some observers believe Russian President Vladimir Putin has a long-term objective of consolidating (“absorbing”) countries that were formerly part of the old USSR into the Russian Federation. But is this Putin’s real objective in the saber-rattling that has been ongoing for the past several weeks? What …