Russia was a great power until 1989 and Vladimir Putin wants to make it a great power again. Should America help him? Veteran commentator Leslie Gelb speaks for much of the US foreign policy establishment when he says that we should, as he did in a recent cover story for the National Interest: “It is totally unrealistic . . . to think that the West can gain desired Russian restraint and cooperation without dealing with Moscow as a great power that possesses real and legitimate interests, especially in its border areas.”
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