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Nobody Wins in Ukraine

Power Problems

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The Effects of NATO Expansion on US-Russian Relations

Kennan was right that NATO expansion really poisoned post-Cold War relations between the US and Russia. American policymakers like William Burns understood in 2008 that extending an invitation for NATO to admit Ukraine as a member was going to be a serious, disrupting force," he says. The French and German governments were both a gas at the idea that the US was promoting the idea of Ukrainian membership in NATO.

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