McFaul: “These Things Can Move Very Quickly in Unintended Ways” By Joshua Keating According to Michael McFaul, who departed his position as U.S. ambassador to Moscow after two tumultuous years, shortly before the current crisis in Ukraine broke out, the invasion of Crimea was likely not some premeditated move by Putin to fulfill his grand strategy of dominating that part of the world. Rather, he argues, it’s important for people to remember that his most important foreign-policy objective is to create the Eurasian Economic Union as a counter to the European Union. Critical to the success of that object was to have Ukraine in the economic Union, not Crimea but all of Ukraine.” slate/blogs/the_world_/2014/03/07/former_u_s_ambassador_to_moscow_michael_mcfaul_defends_the_reset_and_argues.html
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 19:14:40 +0000
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