In the pursuit of rationality, stability, and a nonmilitary outcome in Ukraine, there’s an opportunity to test the capabilities, solidarity, economic power, and purpose of the countries in the NATO alliance, Jeffrey Frank writes.
There’s something oddly familiar about the Ukraine situation, perhaps because it’s part of an ongoing story involving Eastern Europe and the West. During and after the Second World War, the Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin regarded the boundaries and governance of Poland as a matter of great importance. The question was raised at seven of the eight plenary sessions at the Yalta Conference, in early 1945, and wasn’t settled there or at the Potsdam Conference that summer.
The risk of war receded, thanks in part to a creative response: an airlift that, for nearly a year, brought food and fuel to the two and a half million residents of West Berlin. But periodic “Berlin crises” became a staple of the Cold War until November, 1989, when the Wall—a barrier built between East and West Berlin in 1961—was torn down. A year later, Germany was reunited; a year after that, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics dissolved.
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