CNN Fareed Zakaria GPS April 20, 2014 17:02:00
War between the west and russia. many people are wondering, how did we get here? was this confrontation inevitable or did the west mishandle russia from the start? in the mishandling camp is jack matlock, former u.n. ambassador to the soviet union in the late 1980s who watched from moscow as mikhail gorbachev presided over the cold war. he wrote, the united states has treated russia as a loser since the end of the cold war. in the years after the cold war ended, writers urged policy toward a more gentle moscow. i was one of them. my logic was simple. we had two healthy experiments in peace set...