Ukraine crisis: Need for a new order in Europe and Eurasia
... Ukraine, and even as to whether the E.U. should be involved with Ukraine at all. The US has little intrinsic interest in Ukraine, apart from the interests of its politically-inflluential Ukrainian Diaspora. However, once the decision was made to expand NATO eastwards, it acquired a logic and momentum of its own, eventually putting NATO membership for Ukraine on the agenda. Many experienced, highly-respected specialists, including George Kennan, architect of the doctrine of containment of the Soviet ...
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