It is a truism of diplomatic history that if a country or alliance is to reach a compromise peace with an adversary, it must first feel sufficiently secure itself. Hence, senior diplomat Thomas Graham’s suggestion that in order to manage this critical period on the Continent, “the long-term U.S. goal should be the resurrection of a security system based on cooperation with Russia but, perhaps paradoxically, the path to it runs through a near-term effort to secure Europe against Russia.”
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