Are we asking enough hard questions about Ukraine? – POLITICO

Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe.

KYIV — Are we getting caught in an information trap when it comes to Ukraine?

This wouldn’t be unusual — it’s what happened in the run-up to the post-9/11 Iraq war, when American and British media were arguably far too unquestioning of Western officials’ claims that Saddam Hussein was awfully close to having a nuclear bomb or had a huge stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.