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Why Russia Is So Worried About Ukraine


Why Russia Is So Worried About Ukraine

FEBRUARY 25, 2014
BY JOHN MCLAUGHLIN

What’s going on in Ukraine is as much about Russia as it is about Ukraine. And it’s plenty about history, too.

The world has seen something like what we are now seeing in Kiev once before. I have, too, in my early years at the CIA, when I watched and analyzed the fate of the post-Soviet nations shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

At one level, the revolutions of 1989–90 and the Ukraine meltdown appear similar. But the differences between then and now could mean the difference between a state that wobbles naturally on its new legs or one that never gets up off the ground.

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