Crisis In Ukraine And The Dragon’s Trapeze Act (Monish Gulati, Eurasia review)

23.03.2014 19:07

As the conflict in Ukraine refuses to precipitate, it continues to raise fears of triggering yet another confrontation between the Cold War era adversaries – the US and Russia in a geopolitical tussle for dominance in Europe. There is also the possibility that Ukraine itself could descend into civil war. Analysts ponder as to which past moment of history will the country seek to repeat: the 1968 model, when Soviet troops invaded former Czechoslovakia to put an end to the Prague Spring; or the 2008 scenario, when Russia intervened in Georgia on the issue of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

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