Russia-Ukraine Crisis: Decade of Humiliation, Betrayal and Crossing the ‘Red line’
NATO was at its borders but the straw that broke the camel's back was always going to be Ukraine and the attempted regime change in the resource-rich Kazakhstan.For Vladimir Putin, the 1990s was a decade of humiliation as Russia was weak and one can even blame its President Yeltsin for failing to understand the Realpolitik of the U.S.The United States could have improved its relationship with Russia after the Cold War, instead, it plotted to weaken and demean a powerful nation by expanding NATO.
The last century saw many epochal moments perhaps unprecedented in the previous one thousand years. The last century witnessed the First and the Second World Wars, the end of colonialism, and the birth of many nations in Asia and the African continent. If the first and Second World Wars def...