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Russia Wants Its Own Sphere. America Has Other Ideas
It’s a great-power game as old as the Monroe Doctrine.
A Ukrainian Military Forces serviceman walks on a trench on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near Luganske village, in the Donetsk region.
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Great power politics can be boiled down to a simple idea: Powerful nations will try to dominate their region even as they cry foul when rivals do the same in their part of the world.