Heinrich August Winkler on Russia, NATO, and Ukraine (2 of 2): From Cheney-Bush foreign policy to today's war in Ukraine
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"Relations between Russia and the Western world have deteriorated dramatically in the first two decades of the 21st century," writes Heinrich August Winkler (2022) in an observation few would dispute. (See references below.) Those decades brought further NATO enlargement, continuing diplomatic tensions over Kosovo, the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the US-NATO intervention large number of smaller US, NATO, and Russian interventions in various parts of the world, notably in Africa. And, of course there was the Russian clash with Georgia over two separatist republics, which Russia occupied and recognized as separate sovereign entities in 2008. And, of course, Russia's annexation of Crimea and establishing puppet "republics" inside Ukraine. And now the full-on Russian invasion of Ukraine, whose actual goal at this point remains uncertain to most of us. (Despite the assurance with which some commentators and foreign policy experts express.)
Heinrich August Winkler on Russia, NATO, and Ukraine (2 of 2): From Cheney-Bush foreign policy to today's war in Ukraine
Heinrich August Winkler on Russia, NATO, and…
Heinrich August Winkler on Russia, NATO, and Ukraine (2 of 2): From Cheney-Bush foreign policy to today's war in Ukraine
"Relations between Russia and the Western world have deteriorated dramatically in the first two decades of the 21st century," writes Heinrich August Winkler (2022) in an observation few would dispute. (See references below.) Those decades brought further NATO enlargement, continuing diplomatic tensions over Kosovo, the US invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, the US-NATO intervention large number of smaller US, NATO, and Russian interventions in various parts of the world, notably in Africa. And, of course there was the Russian clash with Georgia over two separatist republics, which Russia occupied and recognized as separate sovereign entities in 2008. And, of course, Russia's annexation of Crimea and establishing puppet "republics" inside Ukraine. And now the full-on Russian invasion of Ukraine, whose actual goal at this point remains uncertain to most of us. (Despite the assurance with which some commentators and foreign policy experts express.)