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#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

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Ukraine and NATO - What's the Role of the United States?

A lot of people say that the invasion had to happen because of security concerns over the expansion of NATO. The annexation of Crimea comes after Ukraine has sought an association agreement with the European Union, not with NATO at that particular point. If you have an association agreement, eventually you get into the Akkiko midi-taer, and it just transforms the country completely. And Ukraine is no longer the Ukraine of the Soviet period or the Russian Empire period. It becomes, you know, on a different trajectory like Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland,. You know, another country.

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