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Down until the new ukrainian government dissolves. david ward is here, a contributing editor at "the atlantic." you just wrote a fascinating piece for reuters on the crisis in ukraine. you claim among other things that what we're seeing now is a direct result of how we've dealt with vladimir putin over the past 15 years. you note several key points. among them, the u.s. missile shield. underestimating post-soviet russia, not paying attention, even after the fall of the soviet union. not paying attention to the fact it was still a major power. nato expansion, the war in iraq. how did all of tho...

>> even if you ignore the fact that republicans are just taking their pre-existing fossil fuels agenda and using ukraine to advance it, there's a huge problem with the argument they're making. russia's fossil fuel dominance didn't work. russian troops aren't in ukraine because putin succeeded in buying off ukraine. they're there because he failed. when the ukrainian president cow towed to putin, the ukrainian people took over and kicked him out. it turns out that basing their geo political influence on a corrupt fossil fuels industry does not produce good political and economic results. that d...

Neighbors is the amount of natural gas and oil that they produce and sell to their neighbors. >> even if you ignore the fact that republicans are just taking their pre-existing fossil fuels agenda and using ukraine to advance it, there's a huge problem with the argument they're making. russia's fossil fuel dominance didn't work. russian troops aren't in ukraine because putin succeeded in buying off ukraine. they're there because he failed. when the ukrainian president kowtowed to putin, the ukrainian people took over and kicked him out because it turns out that basing your geopolitical influen...

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