{"id":9402,"date":"2014-03-08T06:01:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T11:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=9402"},"modified":"2014-03-08T06:01:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T11:01:01","slug":"europes-five-deadly-sins-on-ukraine-carnegie-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/08\/europes-five-deadly-sins-on-ukraine-carnegie-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Five Deadly Sins on Ukraine | Carnegie Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Techau of Carnegie Europe writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;.In recent years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has talked about the Kremlin\u2019s fears of Western encirclement. He has declared that EU and NATO enlargement are part of a conspiracy to destroy Russia, that Ukraine is not really a sovereign nation, and that Western agents provocateurs were behind Ukraine\u2019s 2004\u20132005 Orange Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Amid all that rhetoric, the West failed to recognize that Putin was deadly serious. Such talk was dismissed either as cheap propaganda or as the mild lunacy of a handful of overideologized true believers. Nobody imagined that Putin himself really believed his own bluster.<\/p>\n<p>But for the Russian president, the fight over Ukraine is not an imperialistic adventure, it is a fight for survival against a mortal Western enemy. Just because observers in the West know that\u2019s nonsense, that doesn\u2019t mean that others think the same. Such Western projections were finally debunked when German Chancellor Angela Merkel remarked to U.S. President Barack Obama on March 2 that Putin was \u201cin another world.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href='http:\/\/carnegieeurope.eu\/strategiceurope\/?fa=54743'>Europe\u2019s Five Deadly Sins on Ukraine &#8211; Carnegie Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan Techau of Carnegie Europe writes: &#8230;.In recent years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has talked about the Kremlin\u2019s fears of Western encirclement. He has declared that EU and NATO enlargement are part of a conspiracy to destroy Russia, that Ukraine is not really a sovereign nation, and that Western agents provocateurs were behind Ukraine\u2019s 2004\u20132005 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/08\/europes-five-deadly-sins-on-ukraine-carnegie-europe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Europe\u2019s Five Deadly Sins on Ukraine | Carnegie Europe&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[201,892,1304,3006,3521,3614],"class_list":["post-9402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia-former-ussr","tag-angela-merkel","tag-crimea","tag-european-union","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Europe\u2019s Five Deadly Sins on Ukraine | Carnegie Europe - the patient investor<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Europe\u2019s Five Deadly Sins on Ukraine | Carnegie Europe - the patient investor\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jan Techau of Carnegie Europe writes: &#8230;.In recent years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has talked about the Kremlin\u2019s fears of Western encirclement. 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