The US wanted Russia to attack Ukraine. So says Robert H Wade, professor of Global Political Economy at the London School of Economics. And then it brought in its wide-ranging sanctions regime in response. According to renowned investigative journalist Seymour Hersch, the US subsequently blew up the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline. The result is that
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Russia and Ukraine were part of the Soviet Union until it disintegrated in 1991 and Ukraine became an independent country. As neighbours and former Soviet republics, Russia and Ukraine share a common heritage that goes back more than a thousand years.
The Kremlin has effectively fallen into a trap laid by the US and NATO that is intended to bring down Putin's government, wrote Robert H. Wade, professor of Global Political Economy at the London School of Economics.