It's Time to Back Away From the Russian Wolf: Dealing With Putin
Tony Brenton (Former UK Ambassador to Russia) - The Telegraph (Britain) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/11084600/Its-time-to-back-away-from-the-Russian-wolf.html <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0010qaK9e69_Uji94fDH7AMXxYBesnSNQjKdT329Qwueauz0VC2Sl8QATdFOVlvKB-oGkXMHfeGX-PMym9HM1xn7X1ytX93EVP3fry3Wov0KbQy9J5dtb-wwNGbNrnw0ETmHG4AeK2m3uD1cz5FBpUqK-m94M97iabWP1x8rcUnM1zJSeMaqZjSZf8EkkjJJ8MIsna5IYAgdvPzUsBHhXtRGAsj6E-wmygRqUAD3EWsFCvE4nsodnqiuAg8DI5GprH2RMVg6Yx6QEZRM851LmFl9Om6kksS4Uk_gaUe3LRox0L8dDXJQ6Sxsg==&c=PDGziYcAcUNodHrKub0J1X9J9ikHJAM_BrgEuD6DhaM-ZDSjzpr1OA==&ch=zaaxwdome7BeankKGQwfLpkIJ8Vf-BSpFYpj6_9Q1FwrzaNpSQmJlA==> ... Putin, of whom I saw a fair amount as UK ambassador to Moscow, is not an ideologically driven fanatic, but much closer to Talleyrand - the calculating, pragmatic rebuilder of his country's status in the world ... The Russians are ready to go to the brink to achieve their political objectives in Ukraine. Few believe we should go to the brink to stop them. So all we can do is prolong the agony and further immiserate Ukraine ... As many commentators have noted, Russia's objectives - a neutral Ukraine, and constitutional safeguards for the population in the East - are not impossible to meet ... Uncomfortable as it may be, the time has come to do a deal with Putin. Part of this should be easy; Ukraine is in any case going to be in no condition to join Nato for the foreseeable future. -- Ову поруку сте добили зато што сте пријављени на Google групу „SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK“. Да бисте отказали пријаву у ову групу и престали да примате имејлове од ње, пошаљите имејл на [email protected]. Да бисте постављали у овој групи, пошаљите е-поруку на [email protected]. Посетите ову групу на http://groups.google.com/group/senet. За више опција посетите https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
