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u of actions that was offered to President George W. Bush in 2008, when Russia went to war with Georg

ent, kicking Moscow out of the Group of 8 or moving American warships to the region. That is the same menu of actions that was offered to President George W. Bush in 2008, when Russia went to war with Georgia, another balky former Soviet republic. Yet the costs imposed at that time proved only marginally eff

ve ourselves into a frenzy. And he'll stand back and just watch it. He just knows that none of the rest of us want a war." James F. Jeffrey was Mr. Bush's deputy national security adviser in August 2008, the first to inform him that Russian troops were moving into Georgia in response to what the Kre

cow's own terms. The people of the Crimean peninsula were hardly under threat by "fascist gangs" from EFTA00705918 Kiev. In the east, cities like Donetsk and Kharkov had also been quiet, though that may already be changing. That's the advantage of Putin's state- controlled television and his pocket le

gagement failed. The Clinton administration tried to outsource Yugoslavia to the Europeans in the 1990s and was ultimately pulled into the Balkans. George W. Bush tried to conduct foreign policy around and over the heads of "Old Europe"; the experience was not a success. President Obama has similarly sought t

was ultimately pulled into the Balkans. George W. Bush tried to conduct foreign policy around and over

nd was ultimately pulled into the Balkans. George W. Bush tried to conduct foreign policy around and

nd lingering problems, such as the open wound in Palestine and the tensions in North Korea, Syria continues to disintegrate, Ukraine is shaken from Donetsk to Crimea, and serious tensions are rising between China and its neighbours in the East and South China Seas. More globally, the most recent report

Obama, the superpower does not appear to have much interest in defending the status quo. The post-Soviet settlement immensely benefits the US, but George W Bush undid much of that by fighting an illegal war in Iraq. Other states became less likely to heed international law. Yet Mr Obama's reticence has und

in Iraq. Other states became less likely to heed international law. Yet Mr Obama's reticence has undermined the global order just as surely as Mr Bush's unnecessary war in Iraq did. Not to the same extent, but, gradually, piece by piece, it is being undermined. That is what Abdullah Sword was abou

llison May 7, 2014 -- The rapid slide from lawlessness to violence that has claimed the lives of more than sixty people in the Ukrainian cities of Donetsk, Slovyansk, and Odessa in the past week sounds alarms that should be heard more clearly in Western capitals. The strategy Washington and the Europe

und familiar to anyone who remembers George H. W. Bush's first year as president or Michael Ja=kson in

=ound familiar to anyone who remembers George H. W. Bush's first year as president or Michael Ja=kson

ross=the peninsula last March to aid what was ultimately Russia's annexation of =he territory. A pro-Russian insurgency in the east by the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukraine's industrial hea=tland, is ongoing, despite numerous attempts at ceasefires. K=ev is seeking greater Western military assistan