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What Next in Ukraine?
By John Barry, former Defense and National Security Correspondent at Newsweek Magazine
The New Year saw three small gatherings. One in Washington, one in London, one in the capital of a small east European nation formerly under Soviet rule. All were discreet, unpublicized, invitation-only. Only the largest had a formal name. The Washington meeting was labeled SW21: acronym for ‘Strategic Weapons in the 21st Century.’ Since 2008, that’s been a quiet get-together where high-level government officials, academics and nuclear weapons experts meet annually to discuss the role of nuclear weapons in a post-Cold War world.
The two sessions in Europe were ad-hoc
groupings of government, military, think-tank and foreign-policy names,
called together at relatively short notice to debate the question of
the hour: what is Russian President Vladimir Putin up to?
The informal consensus at all three was that Putin would welcome the return of the Cold War. http://www.europeaninstitute.org/index.php/246-european-affairs/december-2014/1983-what-next-in-ukraine
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