Gideon Rose explains in early 2014 that the West wants to get Ukraine ("basically Robin to Russia's Batman") away from Russia and in the Western camp

Glenn Diesen

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In February 2014 (before the US-backed coup), Gideon Rose gloated about how the US was taking Ukraine over while Russia was distracted by the Sochi Olympics. He left out that only 20% of Ukrainians wanted to join NATO. They spoke more open about the US intervention before it triggered a war

Please watch this short clip in which Gideon Rose, the editor of the US defence establishment's premier magazine Foreign Affairs, explains breezily before the fall of Yanukovych that the West wants to get Ukraine to change sides from Russia's to Nato's.