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Article: Containment to Disengagement : It's time that the West realized that only Russians can save Russia. And if they don't...(the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union caught everyone by surprise, and the United States and other Western nations had clear plan to deal with the new Russia)(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek International
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- October 4, 1999
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There was a well-defined goal for the postwar containment strategy of the United States. But it appears that very few policymakers believed it would actually happen. The collapse of the Soviet Union came as a huge surprise for the American elite, Sovietologists included; to be fair, it shocked the Soviet elite, too. The post-cold-war strategy of the United States has not been all that clear. The new policy toward Russia was labeled a "strategic partnership"--but this always had more to do with semantics than with the real content of the relationship.
The Soviet Union suffered a catastrophic defeat in the cold war, to be compared to Germany's or Japan's disastrous ...
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