NATO and the EU raised membership expectations without ever intending to follow through. As a result, Ukraine became vulnerable to Russian revanchism.
Hillary Clinton
What Was Russia’s Role In 2016 U.S. Election? 2 Former KGB Officials Weigh In
“I’m going to tell you something I’ve never told anyone before,” Gennady Gudkov, a retired KGB colonel, told me in his office in an old Moscow manor house.
In Putin’s Russia, An ‘Adhocracy’ Marked By Ambiguity And Plausible Deniability
From Russian “volunteers” fighting in eastern Ukraine to “patriotic hackers,” nongovernment actors provide the Kremlin with a cushion of plausible deniability.
“Bromance”
The Washington Post, Bloomberg, and Newsweek have all used “bromance” to describe the unlikeliest twist in the troubled US-Russian relationship.
