Tom Hayden’s July 21 article is quick to invoke historic Russo-Western Cold War tensions to explain, and excuse, Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine today. Utilizing what amount to “dim and distorted” traces of the past, Mr. Hayden attempts to defend Moscow’s continuing intervention in Ukraine by asserting that the expansionism of “Western triumphalists” plunged East and West into a renewed global conflict. However, the transatlantic community neither began this crisis, nor perceives it to be the dawning of a global clash of ideologies or civilizations. Instead, this crisis reflects Vladimir Putin’s eleventh-hour endeavor to maintain his regional power by undermining Ukraine’s …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
