Foreign Affairs has recently published a number of articles examining the extent to which the ongoing crisis in Ukraine is the West’s fault. Those articles sparked a heated debate, so they decided to ask a broader pool of experts to state whether they agree or disagree with the following statement and to rate their confidence level about that answer. See below for AEI Director of Russian Studies Leon Aron’s perspective. The West provoked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Russia’s near abroad by expanding NATO and the EU after the Cold War. “War is a continuation of politics by other …read more
Source: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research