Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West's Fault John J. Mearsheimer
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41277.htm <http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=0018-tEdjO3jh3GW29PWrsAtcqmJ5IVo-Rj5JFscoMWf882ChsYqLypreTWqJ17V9OeU5rWVzg3dG95kusGpDh4IdGvufhbcyfF9mab4bf6c6qqG-TMNjXAL_dSHfsqMt6oANudt5iIrcpC7xJZxWJph56HWHagLeoWZJE-zzbLSjKbf6bA1YLEuZcBxGM0aZotFQUv56hOHZScHDAcW2Wj0A==&c=rQFKLtrVBdepqv9o123UHyohMN-uF3D1thO39QUwWsPtmDdO9bHH9Q==&ch=stUmLeXpK7ku7kw5TH0Rs0WO2bgtPnQH6ow3JX9tKTDQJolWmB91BA==> According to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression ... But this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis. The taproot of the trouble is NATO enlargement, the central element of a larger strategy to move Ukraine out of Russia's orbit and integrate it into the West. ... So thoroughly did liberals come to dominate the discourse about European security during the first decade of this century that even as the alliance adopted an open-door policy of growth, NATO expansion faced little realist opposition. The liberal worldview is now accepted dogma among U.S. officials ... There is a solution to the crisis in Ukraine, however -- although it would require the West to think about the country in a fundamentally new way. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SERBIAN NEWS NETWORK" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/senet. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
