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Overall it’s pretty balanced. There’s a bit of jingoism in some reporting but that doesn’t need to get in the way of the info. There was a similar piece to the one you’ve linked in the Economist a couple of months back.Some of our News does provide some useful analysis occasionally. I guess I was being too hard. Some of the newspaper columnists are more informative and give more context than some of the TV News coverage however.
Many predicted Nato expansion would lead to war. Those warnings were ignored | Ted Galen Carpenter | The Guardian
I think in the West there has been a general assumption that Russia would gradually reform and eventually become a modern, well-functioning trading partner. The possibility of Russia joining NATO has been tabled a few times, but Putin balked at the perceived indignity of having to deal with the corruption of his own government in order to be accepted. I’m sure Putin genuinely believes he is acting in Russia’s best interests, but he is hopelessly stuck in another era. The sad irony is that his outdated notions will likely cripple his own state for years to come, as well as causing untold misery in Ukraine.
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