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Я всё ждал, кто же первый уличит меня в плагиате, но похоже, что на lj.rossia.org кроме lifenews и unian.net ничего не читают. Тем не менее, спасибо всем откликнувшимся за то, что развлекли меня.
Предыдущая запись была не оригинальным текстом, а моим переводом кусков статьи из прокремлёвского журнала "Foreign Affairs", за авторством подкупленного Путиным профессора Чикагского университета Джона Миршеймера. Полный текст под катом

Why the Ukraine Crisis Is the West’s Fault

According to the prevailing wisdom in the West, the Ukraine crisis can be blamed almost entirely on Russian aggression. Russian President Vladimir Putin, the argument goes, annexed Crimea out of a long-standing desire to resuscitate the Soviet empire, and he may eventually go after the rest of Ukraine, as well as other countries in eastern Europe. In this view, the ouster of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February 2014 merely provided a pretext for Putin’s decision to order Russian forces to seize part of Ukraine.

But this account is wrong: the United States and its European allies share most of the responsibility for the crisis.( Read more... )

The United States and its European allies now face a choice on Ukraine. They can continue their current policy, which will exacerbate hostilities with Russia and devastate Ukraine in the process -- a scenario in which everyone would come out a loser. Or they can switch gears and work to create a prosperous but neutral Ukraine, one that does not threaten Russia and allows the West to repair its relations with Moscow. With that approach, all sides would win.