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the Ukraine really isn't that important to anyone except Russia, and really should never have been staked out as a NATO objective in the first place
The flashpoint here was not NATO, but the EU. I suspect the US foreign policy establishment must be really pissed off at the way the EU (and Merkel) has handled Ukraine. Total fantasist rookies, if you ask me.

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Apr 4th, 2014 at 04:50:58 AM EST
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