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by rjzzleep
1572 days ago
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Stephen cohen also mentioned the military doctrine of Russia and how irresponsible and provocative obamas comments were when the whole Ukraine conflict kicked off. Someone posted the following leaked cable here a while back from 2008 > Comment
> 12. (C) Russia's opposition to NATO membership for Ukraine
and Georgia is both emotional and based on perceived strategic concerns about the impact on Russia's interests in
the region. It is also politically popular to paint the U.S.
and NATO as Russia's adversaries and to use NATO's outreach to Ukraine and Georgia as a means of generating support from
Russian nationalists. While Russian opposition to the first
round of NATO enlargement in the mid-1990's was strong,
Russia now feels itself able to respond more forcefully to
what it perceives as actions contrary to its national
interests. https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/08MOSCOW265_a.html |
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