When in 2014 the former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger opposed Ukraine’s membership of Nato, he reiterated a position he had already taken in 2007. His argument was historically founded and paid heed to the unique relationship between Ukraine and Russia, in addition to the ill-defined borders of Ukraine and her neighbours since the end of World War I. Referencing the significance of history, Kissinger admonished the West with a most remarkable sentence: „The West must understand that to Russia, Ukraine can never just be a foreign country.“(Weiterlesen …)