How to Talk with Russia

After Russia’s annexation of Crimea, many policymakers in Europe concluded that it had been a mistake to let Russia get away with the 2008 Georgian war. “We were not clear enough ... ... not clear enough in Georgia, that’s why they moved to Ukraine,” people would say, having in mind the expansion of Western outreach. This example illustrates the problem that Russia and the West now face. We have fundamentally different understandings ...