Bill Clinton Just Gave A Grave Warning About Putin Plan For Ukraine
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"Putin wants to re-establish Russian greatness - not in Cold War terms," Clinton said during a question-and-answer session the Peter G. Peterson Foundation's annual Fiscal Summit on Wednesday. "In 19th century empire terms."
Some of Putin's recent comments have stirred concern within foreign-policy circles. Over the past few weeks, he has repeatedly referred to regions making up southeast Ukraine as "Novorussia," or "New Russia" and he has said Russia has a right to intervene on behalf of ethnic Russians living in those areas.
Since Russia's move to annex the Ukrainian region of Crimea in March, the Obama administration has also accused Putin of acting according to terms of a different century.
"You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th-century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in early March. President Barack Obama said after the annexation was complete that sending troops in and taking a piece of land is "not how international law and international norms are observed in the 21st century."
Less than two months after Russia's annexation of Crimea, separatists from the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk held referendums in which they said citizens voted to secede from Ukraine. Separatist leaders from both regions now want to join Russia.
Clinton and Putin's presidencies did not overlap extensively, however the pair did meet while both were in office. Putin became Russia's president in 2000, the last year Clinton was in office in the U.S. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Bill's wife, led the so-called Russian "reset" policy in 2009, when Putin was briefly out of power at the start of the Obama administration. Hillary Clinton said in March that Putin believes his mission is to "restore Russian greatness."
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