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Nobody Wins in Ukraine

Power Problems

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Introduction

Christopher Lane is a distinguished professor of international affairs at Texas A&M University. He says US policymakers during World War II thought long and hard about the kind of postwar world order they wanted to see. The primary mistake was that Europe composed of rival great powers was always going to be a quote unquote fire trap, he says. But even in the late 1940s, the US did have a covert action problem ironically headed by George F. Kennan to try and sow dissension in the Baltic states in Ukraine.

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