RPI academic advisor, Prof. Mark Almond, explains how the US and its NATO allies are suddenly realizing that they have unleashed a force in western Ukraine that is highly destabliizing, with the repeal of the language law and the repeal of the law banning Nazi symbols being the early legislation passed by the US-backed group in control in Kiev. Panic is setting in the West.
Said Almond:
Suddenly the whole mood music from Washington, from London, from Brussels, even from Warsaw, is to say reach out to the Russian population, reach out to the Jewish population that is fearful of this radical neo-Nazi type rhetoric and stormtrooper squads roaming the streets in some of the cities of Ukraine. They have realized that the coup that overthrew Yanukovich has not been the end of the drama, but only the first act.
It is the sign of a rather childish, almost unbelievably incompetent attitude on the part of the NATO countries that they facilitated this crisis without thinking through what would happen. That you are unleashing forces of nationalism, of fear, that can become uncontrollable.
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