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security/ Forgetting and forgiving Ukrainian Nazi coup organizers
As Russian, Ukrainian, French, and German leaders meet
to attempt to craft a cease-fire and peace treaty, American diplomats
and ambassadors are weighing in from their perch at Washington’s top
think tanks.
In their version of events, Putin is violently expanding
Russia’s borders, threatening not only Ukrainian independence but peace
and prosperity in the Baltics and Caucasus, justifying an aggressive
military expansion by NATO and the American military.
Leading this charge from the Brookings Institute
are former Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer and former Deputy Secretary
of State Strobe Talbott, the President of the Institute.
Talbott, in an interview about his career
posted on January 9, notes he met Putin in the 1990s and describes
him as a Russian intelligence official concerned with protecting
Russia from the international intelligence apparatus which was built
to destroy the Soviet state.
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