'Will the prospect of a 21st-Century version of the Cuban Missile Crisis be enough to bring America’s irresponsible leaders to their senses and start unwinding the suicidal mess they have blundered into?' ask MedeaBenjamin & NicolasJSDavies
in principle in 2008. NATO forces would advance right up to Russia’s border and Russia’s important naval base at Sevastopol in the Crimea would fall under NATO control.
On the other hand, if Russia had responded to the coup by invading Ukraine, there would have been no turning back from a disastrous new Cold War with the West. To Washington’s frustration, Russia found a middle path out of this dilemma, by accepting the result of Crimea’s referendum to rejoin Russia, but only giving covert support to the separatists in the East.
In 2021, with Nuland once again installed in a corner office at the State Department, the Biden administration quickly cooked up a plan to put Russia in a new pickle.
In practice, Ukraine could only recover those territories by a major escalation of the civil war, and that was exactly what Ukraine and its NATO backers appeared to be in March 2021. But that prompted Russia to begin moving troops and conducting military exercises, within its own territory , but close enough to Ukraine to deter a new offensive by Ukrainian government forces.in Donbass. Russia, which still had about 100,000 troops stationed near Ukraine, responded with new troop movements and military exercises. U.S.
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