Ukraine is entitled to its sovereignty, no matter who its neighbors happen to be. In the modern era, great countries accept that, and so must Vladimir Putin. I write about the current crisis and my earliest encounters with Putin in today’s @nytimes nytimes.com/2022/02/23/opi…
@madeleine @nytimes Hubris both to think that borders can't be redrawn in the modern age, or that they should be
@madeleine @nytimes 👇 "Although Mr. Putin will, in my experience, never admit to making a mistake, he has shown that he can be both patient and pragmatic. He also is surely conscious that the current confrontation has left him even more dependent on China"
@madeleine @nytimes Ration gasoline, drop the price of oil, hurt Putin’s PetroRubles
@madeleine @nytimes And Western Sahara? axios.com/biden-keep-tru…
@madeleine @nytimes What about Kosovo and Serbia? It has been taken from Serbia just the same way parts of Ukraine are at the moment. Back then no one cared... it's just so hypocritical and one-sided.
@madeleine @nytimes Always good to hear from the "expert" who might be more responsible for the misguided policies that caused this war than any other person alive. Remember when you told us NATO expansion would melt away these sort of disputes? You had it exactly backwards. 1997-2001.state.gov/statements/970…