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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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