Jack F. Matlock, Jr. – Ukraine: Tragedy of a Nation Divided
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Interference
by the United States and its NATO allies
in Ukraine’s civil struggle
has exacerbated the crisis within Ukraine,
undermined the possibility of bringing
the two easternmost provinces
back under Kyiv’s control,
and raised the specter of possible conflict
between nuclear armed powers.
Furthermore,
in denying that Russia
has a “right” to oppose extension
of a hostile military alliance
to its national borders,
the United States ignores its own history
of declaring and enforcing for two centuries
a sphere of influence in the Western hemisphere. […]