Американские реалисты об украинском кризисе.

Несколько статей, близких между собой и представляющих реалистский взгляд на украинскую (а точнее на российскую) проблему. Наибольшее внимание к теме в серии статей op-ed в WaPo и National Interest.

Stephen Walt @ Foreign Policy, "No Contest":
The Obama administration was clearly taken by surprise when Russia decided to seize Crimea by force. The real question, however, is why Obama and his advisors thought the United States and the European Union could help engineer the ouster of a democratically elected and pro-Russian leader in Ukraine and expect Vladimir Putin to go along with it? ... the taproot of the debacle in Ukraine was a failure to distinguish between power and interests....

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