The west needs to seek compromises with Russia in part because the west is weaker than it was. Among other things, the idea of Nato and EU membership for Georgia and Ukraine, or even any significantly enhanced partnership, is dead. This in turn requires a change in western policy from expansion vis a vis Russia to a strategy of jointly containing crises: for example, the real danger of a new Armenian-Azeri war over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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