The Philadelphia Inquirer quotes Transatlantic Relations Program Senior Fellow Adrian Karatnycky on US policy toward the situation in Ukraine:
There is one important country where U.S. efforts may yet achieve a positive outcome. I’m talking about Ukraine, where Russia’s Vladimir Putin has just blinked in his efforts to dismantle the country – in large part because Western sanctions (even mild ones) jeopardized his weak economy.
“In a world where everything is going to hell, this is a place where something is working,” says Adrian Karatnycky, a Ukraine expert at the Atlantic Council who just returned from Kiev. “If the United States is looking to reverse a tide of failures, Ukraine is one place where there is a possibility of success.”
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“Circumstances have given the White House a chance at a do-over, a chance to reassert the inviolability of borders,” says Karatnycky. Given his rash of foreign policy stumbles, Obama would be foolish to pass up that chance.