Source: Fred Kaplan in Slate Magazine, April 28
Conclusion of the column:
…Sanctions are part of the answer. Military action is another (though not NATO combat troops in Ukraine – forget about that). But so is a vision of what happens after Ukraine’s May 25 elections and of how the United States, the European Union, and Russia can cooperate to get Ukraine back on its feet.
Yes, this crisis is about American will and determination (the rest of the world is watching, and all that), but it’s fundamentally about Ukraine. And, as even Timothy Garton Ash – that great journalist and advocate of a free and united Europe – has acknowledged, there’s no way Ukraine can be healthy, economically or politically, without a treatment that takes into account European and Russian interests.
