NEWSLINK Washington Post: After the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. tried to help Russians.

May 5, 2015 JRL Russia List Foreign Policy, Security, Visas, History, Soviet Union, United States, U.S.-Russian Relations

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Mr. Putin’s remarks reflect a deep-seated paranoia. It would be easy to dismiss this kind of rhetoric as intended for domestic consumption, an attempt to whip up support for his war adventure in Ukraine. In part, it is that. But Mr. Putin’s assertion that the West has been acting out of a desire to sunder Russia’s power and influence is a willful untruth.

Washington Post editorial: After the fall of the Soviet Union, the U.S. tried to help Russians.