Ukraine - Anatomy of a Crisis

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03 March 2022

According to Steven Pifer (CISAC), the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is about the Kremlin’s unwillingness to recognize Ukraine as a sovereign state.

(Afnewsmedia) - The conflict between Russia and Ukraine stems from the collapse of the Soviet Union Ukraine, a former Soviet country, possessed the world’s third-largest atomic arsenal when the Soviet Union broke up in the early 1990s.

What’s at stake is clearly defined by the United States and Russia. 

Russia provided the US with a list of requests, some of which were non-starters for the US and its partners in NATO. Putin requested that NATO halt its eastward expansion and refuse Ukraine membership, as well as a reduction in force deployment in countries that joined after 1997, which would set the clock back 

decades in terms of Europe’s security and geopolitical alignment. 

According to analysts, Putin’s attitude toward the United States has also changed. 

To Putin, the messy Afghanistan pullout (which Moscow would know something about) and the US’s political upheaval are signals of weakness. 

Europe, too, has internal divisions. The consequences of Brexit are still being dealt with by both the EU and the UK. The current Covid-19 epidemic is affecting everyone. After 16 years of Angela Merkel as chancellor, Germany now has a new chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and the new coalition government is still attempting to figure out its foreign policy. Germany, as well as other European nations, buys natural gas from Russia, and energy costs  are currently soaring.

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