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Balance of Power in Former Soviet States

March 27, 2014 by KRS Leave a Comment

Via Ukraine, a broader struggle for influence

  • Mr. Putin complains about the West moving unilaterally to reorder continental balance of power through promoting Western capitalism and democracy, depicted by it’s courting of Ukraine, a step too far, prompting Putin to risk sanctions and assert himself.
  • “The future of Ukraine and the broader region, mainly Moldova and Georgia, although courted by Europe, will not be allowed by the West alone to decide“, asserted Russia & stressed that it can’t be treated as defeated in the Cold War for 23 yrs after 1991.
  • Russia denounced this mentality & asserted that it is like separate sovereign nations of India and China.
  • It is part of a wider tug-of-war as the West dominated since the fall of Soviet Union, drawing  into Europe’s fold the former Eastern bloc nations like Poland and Bulgaria & ex-Soviet republics — Lithuania, Latvia and  Estonia — in the Baltics.
  • The Soviet leader Mikhail  Gorbachev believed NATO alliance will not extend beyond a reunited Germany. But were betrayed as NATO now includes the Baltics, reaching Russia’s borders.
  • Mr. Putin views this as U.S. unilateralism in global affairs. In the Syria case, Mr. Putin outmanoeuvred Obama with a proposal to disarm President Al-Assad’s chemical weapons.
  • Mr. Putin battled to prevent Mr. Yanukovych from signing accords with the EU, wielding a mix of threatened trade sanctions and the enticements of fiscal aid and economic tools, the same tools preferred & used by the West to conduct geopolitical combat in 21st century.
  • Putin offered Ukraine $15 billion in credit with discounts on Russian natural gas, after protests broke out in Nov 2013, when the West tried to revive political & trade agreements.

Exams Perspective:

  1. NATO
  2. Ukraine Crisis
  3. Baltic Nations
  4. Soviet Union
  5. Cold War

Filed Under: Current Affairs, International Tagged With: Baltic Nations, Cold War, NATO, Soviet Union, Ukraine crisis

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