Russia's War Against Ukraine
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Vladimir Socor: Ukraine in a leaderless Europe – a net assessment (part two)
A serviceman leans on an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) in front of slagheap of a coal mine on the position of Ukrainian forces on front line near small eastern Ukrainian city of Kurakhove, Donetsk Oblast on March 11, 2015.
Most of the "old" Europe-pre-1999 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union-does not acknowledge the wider implications of Russia's war in Ukraine (let alone the fact that it is a war). That group treats this war, instead, as an internal conflict localizable in Ukraine, solvable to Russia’s satisfaction at Ukraine’s expense, to be followed by normalization of Europe-Russia relations, without adverse consequences to Europe or the Euro-Atlantic relationship. Most of the "new" Europe (Central and Eastern), on the other hand, regards Russia's war in Ukraine as the opening stage in a strategy to overturn the post-1991 status quo, in Europe as a whole and beyond.
