NI: the U.S. can't give Kiev carte Blanche for confrontation with Russia
The US must exercise caution and not to let my allies or friends, such As Ukraine, to feel like they have carte Blanche to a confrontation with Russia, writes the American magazine.
The potential consequences of a war with Russia would be catastrophic, results magazine, the opinion of the President of the Washington Center for the national interest of Dmitri Simes and Director of the Research Center of Belper at the Harvard Kennedy school Graham Ellison. These professionals, emphasizing the interest of the United States in maintaining its credibility As a " superpower ", at the same time warn that Moscow and Washington have the opportunity to "inadvertently" to be involved in a war with each other.
Back in the 1990s, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union George F. Kennan warned that NATO expansion is steadily adjusts the Russian Federation against the United States. Looks like his prediction is coming true in our day, emphasizes The National Interest." Echoes of the confrontation during the cold war are heard in both capitals, " writes the magazine.
It announces the creation of a new non-partisan organization of the U.S. Department for agreement between East and West, composed of former Senator bill Bradley, former ambassadors William van den Heuvel and Jack Matlock, Jr., and Professor Stephen Cohen. The aim of the Department is to promote a "new discharge" of relations with Russia.
According to The National Interest, members of the organization nourish the hope to motivate intensive discussions about Russia and agitate Moscow and Washington to restore cooperation in " joint reduction of threat ", and again to begin the work of Council Russia-the NATO.
the magazine also cited the view of honorary President of the Council for international vzaimootnosheniam Leslie Gelb, who agitates the administration of the United States to "the sober policy, in which Russia would be considered" not As an enemy but As a combination of the enemy and partner."
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