World Affairs Journal: A Russian threat to Ukraine
Who’s right about the threat Russia poses to its neighbors—the distinguished American historian Richard Pipes or the distinguished Russian analyst Dmitri Trenin? According to Pipes, the Russians “do pose a threat to their ex-republics. They have no problem with Central Asia, because those [states] are rather docile. But they can’t reconcile themselves to the loss of the three Baltic Republics [Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania] and Ukraine and Georgia. I feel fairly confident that if Georgia or the Ukraine were to join NATO, as they would like to, the Russians would invade and destroy their independence.”
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