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...Reclaiming The Hood An important priority for a re-energized Russia has been the "near abroad": the former territories of the Soviet empire. To watch what were once coerced satellites like Estonia and Poland rush to join nato and the E.U. has been hard enough. But the nato membership likely to be sought by Ukraine, which shares a 2,063-km border with Russia, raises primal fears of encirclement. Kremlin propaganda already blames the sudden collapse of empire and economic dislocation on perfidy by ingrate "junior brothers" such as Ukraine, as well as hostile plots by the U.S. and nato...
...sign came last winter, when the state-controlled gas behemoth Gazprom shut off supplies to Ukraine for several days, in what the Russians described as a price dispute but Ukraine and many others took to be a crude political move to punish Kiev for embracing Western institutions such as nato. More recently, Russian government officials have talked tough with West European leaders, raising the prospect that they might divert energy supplies to China and the U.S. if the Europeans don't meet their demands for better access to Western markets, including ownership of some refining and distribution operations. The Russians...
...President spends so little time in France and Spain--the blue states of Europe--and so much in Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia, countries once behind the Iron Curtain where his odes to democracy are particularly resonant. Beyond just visiting, Bush has been pushing for the eastward expansion of NATO and the European Union, which would give the map of Europe more of a red-state look...
Ramsey won a physics Nobel Prize for his other research and is best known for his work in nuclear forces and thermodynamics. He has been consulted by high-profile organizations including the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the U.S. Air Force, and NATO...
Clark, a retired four-star general and former NATO commander, heads the political-action committee WesPAC