“We are in an extremely dangerous situation, and Western policy is exacerbating these risks,” warns the political scientist in a guest essay for The Economist
in Ukraine is the most dangerous international conflict since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Understanding its root causes is essential if we are to prevent it from getting worse and, instead, to find a way to bring it to a close.
But that story is wrong. The West, and especially America, is principally responsible for the crisis which began in February 2014. It has now turned into a war that not only threatens to destroy Ukraine, but also has the potential to escalate into a nuclear war between Russia and’s Bucharest summit in April 2008, when George W. Bush’s administration pushed the alliance to announce that Ukraine and Georgia “will become members”.
The links between Ukraine and America continued growing under the Biden administration. This commitment is reflected throughout an important document—the “-Ukraine Charter on Strategic Partnership”—that was signed in November by Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, and Dmytro Kuleba, his Ukrainian counterpart.
My story about the conflict’s causes should not be controversial, given that many prominent American foreign-policy experts have warned againstexpansion since the late 1990s. America’s secretary of defence at the time of the Bucharest summit, Robert Gates, recognised that “trying to bring Georgia and Ukraine intowas truly overreaching”.
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