Saagar discussed the book and the life of George Kennan, particularly his views on Russia and Ukraine, and how those were largely prescient and ignored by the United States.
Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic anti-Western militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy, to restore the a...
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Saagar discussed the book and the life of George Kennan, particularly his views on Russia and Ukraine, and how those were largely prescient and ignored by the United States.
Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic anti-Western militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy, to restore the atmosphere of the Cold War to East-West relations and to impel Russian foreign policy in certain directions decidedly not to our liking.
nowhere does this choice appear more portentous and pregnant with fateful consequences than in the case of Ukraine.
an independent Ukraine would be challenged eventually from the Russian side.
push for a composing of the differences along the lines of a reasonable federalism.
Kennan's lesson for us in understanding the Cold War of the 20th century and in diffusing the explosive tensions of the 21st century is that seemingly intractable conflicts may be more susceptible to settlement than it may at first appear.