Putin seeks allies in Hungary while the Ukrainians withdrew from Debaltseve

The attitude of the Russian President Putin continues to be contemptuous of international law. During the visit in Hungary has declared that the war will cease only if Kiev will realize that we need a peaceful solution to the conflict. This means that Ukraine, after being invaded, will have to passively accept the conditions imposed by Moscow, which, moreover, continues to declare formally foreign conflict. At this point, the result will only be that of a new annexation to the Russian territory, with the eastern part of the country that will change Ukrainian sovereignty. This, on the one hand allow you to end the suffering of the population, but will trigger a process that might be able to change permanently the unstable equilibrium with the West. For now the United States were on the sidelines, leaving the talks in France and Germany, but can not credible that they will resign themselves to this defeat. There are other steps to climb in sanctions, as no longer to accept the result of the Russian money laundering in western handbags and also the ability to raise in Moscow would receive payments thus blocking any flow of money. The monopoly of financial assets is almost everything in hand to the West, and if it was not used as leverage to convince the Kremlin was only because it was damaging economically important partners such as the United Kingdom, to which you can ask for sacrifices to the same extent that they are were asked to farmers and other European producers, who have been reducing the turnover as a boomerang effect of sanctions on Russia. Remains open then the game of how to welcome Ukraine officially in the Western world: if Kiev loses the pro-Russian territories there would be no any obstacles for a full membership in the European Union and, even more, in the Alliance Atlantica. At that point it might be better for Moscow to accept the solution of a Ukrainian state neutral and pro-Russian regions still under the sovereignty of Kiev, but with a wide autonomy. The economic downturn in Russia as a result of sanctions is already perceived by the population heavily and developments that seem to take the form does not allow to hope for improvements, so much so that Putin is desperately looking for new partners; it justifies the trip to Hungary, where they were agreed new gas supplies in Budapest and joint initiatives in agriculture, able to overcome the effect of the sanctions. It should be recalled that Hungary is a member of both the European Union, both the Atlantic Alliance and that, therefore, its behavior should be subject to careful analysis. The Hungarian government in office has already been criticized for laws against freedom and anti-democratic, that are contrary to the principles of Brussels, but has never been sanctioned: this seems a good time to take a punitive action against those who assume a conduct so explicitly contrary to the spirit of the union. On the front of the fighting, after violent battles for Debaltseve, fought despite the truce, departments of Kiev WOULD retreating in an orderly manner and with all their weaponry. To the west it is a defeat, on which question the conduct to maintain, because in the sights of the pro-Russian now we will definitely be the port of Mariupol and the surrounding territory, which would allow the Russians to join the Eastern Ukraine with Crimea, now isolated within the territory of Ukraine. From these bases will have to start new negotiations that will follow those just concluded and that allowed to reach the current fragile ceasefire.