Russia's view of the Ukraine war: a Kremlin ally's perspective
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
The Ukraine Crisis and the Prospect for a Nuclear Exchange Between Russia and NATO
This conflict did not start out of the blow on the 24th of February. It has at least a nine-year history preceding it. And if you look back a decade before that, you can see that this whole business of Ukraine being invited to NATO was a challenge that essentially no Russian leadership would have been able to tolerate. A country should not have a sovereign right to decide which strategic alliance is it wishes to be a part of. That's the perspective. Now, again, various countries can take various leadership, perhaps in various countries cantake various decisions. But each decision carries a price. And that applies to Russia, that applies to the United States, that apply to Ukraine.
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