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Nicholas Noecker's avatar

Regime security versus national security is an academic concern. The Euromaiden and Maiden Revolutions evoke Occupy Wall Street which culminated a decade later in the Summer of Floyd insurrection riots. Like in America, Euromaiden began with a meetup call on facebook that attracted 1500 people in Nov 2013. By the time of the Maiden Revolution three months later, numbers were a couple hundred thousand which eventually routed the government. And like the Summer of Floyd revolutionaries, The Maidens were united by youthful indiscretion gone wild. However, the Maidens always, always, insisted on achieving tight integration between Ukraine and EU. Russia feared that but feared more the visuals from the Arab Spring, Euromaiden, Maiden, and the destabilization of the regime and the nation such a thing might cause in Russia should it spread. Now, if negotiation is fruitless then Ukraine is in a tight spot. And so is America, now that it's thrown-in with the revolutionaries.

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Pavel's avatar

The authors didn't present any new prospective beyond what John Meirshimer had. Just go to the source, forget the copycat

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