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...today, but the Blair of 1999. Back then, the British leader was supporting the U.S. in a different war, in Kosovo. Remember Kosovo? It was fought without U.N. approval against a dictator, Slobodan Milosevic, who, while slaughtering his own people, posed no direct threat to the U.S. Had NATO's campaign failed, it would have been Clinton and Blair who looked like reckless ideologues. But it worked. And Blair made it the centerpiece of a new foreign policy creed, which he called the "doctrine of international community...
...European Union and Russia have all called for a peaceful solution to the standoff, but its outcome will have broad implications for Ukraine's role in world politics. Last month the U.S. Senate approved a bill providing support and funding for Ukraine's candidacy to join nato. Moscow bitterly opposes this and has long been more friendly to the anti-nato Yanukovych. "Yushchenko sees us as a huge log that blocks his path to nato," a Rada deputy of Yanukovych's faction told Time. "He also knows that this log is stuffed with cash," he added, suggesting that money enticed...
Europe is ready for peacekeeping, but hardly for peacemaking in instruments other than North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), of which the United States is the master and commander. Therefore, it should speed up measures to allow to compliment the above soft power measures with harder power...
...parliamentary maneuvers and alliance building, Yanukovych became Prime Minister and immediately set out to encroach on the President's diminishing powers. Yanukovych has purged Yushchenko's nominees from his own cabinet. The Rada and the Cabinet now oppose the President's policies, aimed at joining the European Union and NATO, playing on fears of joining the Western alliance fanned by Russian propaganda. The ever looser Orange alliance of Tymoshenko and Yushchenko was being abandoned by parliamentarians, who were defecting to Yanukovych?s better funded and organized Party of the Regions and its coalition partners. That coalition now has 258 votes...
Vladimir Putin's regional roulette has many fronts but just two primary stakes: oil and pride. Russia is nursing border disputes with Norway and Japan, but the real emotional outbursts come with the former Soviet states, many of whom are sidling up to NATO or the E.U. Among the weapons wielded: troop deployments, trade embargoes and immigration quotas. Late last year Russia hiked gas and oil prices to Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine, all countries resisting the Kremlin's political embrace. With former satellites like Azerbaijan planning oil pipelines that bypass Russia, expect more hurt feelings--and more rough play...