Battle of Ideals: USA and the Borderlands

U.S.A and the Borderlands.

There has been tons of contentions and conflicts in the second largest country in europe and while the news presents us all these ideas about what going there, the truth, as it always is, is much more complex. The recent turmoil in the Ukraine has brought up a lot of issues remembered in the cold war. Russia Annexing the crimean peninsula from the Ukraine scaring western powers, specifically the United States, into the old policy of Soviet containment and using any means to put negatives towards the “eastern block” preventing the spread of its influence. Although the United States and it NATO/European Union current policy’s towards the eastern block have attempted to contain this strong autocratic style of government, is the strife caused in these contested lands worth it? and should this aggressive relationship between the western allies and Russia continue this cold battle of ideals. This seemingly endless conflict with Russia and the issues of foreign policy that come with it has been going on for almost a century and has its roots as far in the original Russian Empire and vines into much of the world and modorn history as we know it.

Both Russia and America were expansionist nations with messianic complexes, and the many people from both nations believed they possessed a unique mission in history. Since the early eighteenth century and late seventeenth century, Russia acted mostly as an imperialistic state, under Peter the Great and with the defeat of Sweden plus many other confrontation, expanded in many places across Asia and eastern Europe. The 'They' were the ultimate race and are destined to right the wrongs of others and there crooked ways. Except for a brief interval in 1917, due to the...

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