... opportunities for creating new dialogues. This is especially prominent in explaining the poor relationship at the moment with Russia. There seems to be an element of purposeful animosity in the way Russia is viewed, analyzed, and engaged, especially at ... ... that is an innate contradiction to American values. As such it will inevitably always be a threat to U.S. interests and global security. By all indicators, Russia is a threat not just to itself and its immediate neighbors but to the entire world, masking ...
..., to discuss all of the supposedly egregious and disconcerting Russian maneuvers against Ukraine and demanding that Russia stop ... ... well and good, of course, part of the pomp and circumstance of international organizations that believe more strongly in microphones ... ... to the microphones that all options will remain open for global security and peace, France and Germany are both formally opposed ... ... compared to official French and German policy? I have a bridge to Crimea to sell you if you believe that. Which is an interesting ...
..., the protests and indignation and opposition was voiced primarily under the context of expecting that violence to come from Russian military forces invading into the country. It was the assumption that the only way authorities in Kyiv would take to arms ... ... situation on the ground in eastern Ukraine. In several media interviews I gave in the United States following the referendum in Crimea, I warned that the greatest possible danger in Ukraine would be civil groups in major eastern Ukrainian cities looking ...
