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August 20, 2015

Herbst on Military Implications of the Ukraine Conflict

By John Herbst

The World Post quotes Dinu Patriciu Eurasia Center Director John E. Herbst on Russia’s gradual incursion into Ukraine:

“The struggle in Ukraine is more serious than ISIS,” said John Herbst in an interview. He’s a former US ambassador to Ukraine and Director of the Eurasia Center at the Atlantic Council in Washington. “It’s very simple. Any military thinker looks at a threat – what is the [possible] damage? Putin wants to change the peace established in 1991 and after World War II.”

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