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Should NATO Admit Ukraine?

Open to Debate

CHAPTER

The Threat of NATO in Ukraine

The word Ukraine is sometimes translated in Russian as being the borderlands or to the edge. For the Russian psyche, it's often been seen as a buffer between Russia and the West. By the time Putin and next Crimea, there was not a single American tank in Europe. NATO was a paper tiger. Everybody knew it. But exactly because NATO looks so weak, and Obama was willing to make a deal. Then, of course, I don't know if I mentioned Trump, Putin decided that he could do whatever.

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