A “Third Way” for Confronting Russia
While a strategy by the West to "contain" Russia would treat the country more seriously than it deserves, accommodating Russian demands would pose an unacceptable threat to Europe. The West's main goal must be to defend Ukraine's territorial integrity and to reject Russia's use of force in its former empire.
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PARIS – “Let’s engage Russia if we can, but contain it if we must.” These two alternatives already defined Western strategy toward Russia in the mid-1990’s. Since then, Russia may have changed dramatically, but not our questions about it. What do you do when your big neighbor widens the gap that exists between its culture, which is European, and its political system, which is becoming increasingly “Asian,” at least in the bad old sense of “Oriental despotism”?