US AND RUSSIA TODAY IN GENEVA

when the USSR collapsed

Gorbachev cut a deal

with US

no NATO expansion

didn’t get the US

to sign anything

big mistake

looks like it

Ukraine

got independence

from USSR

gave up its nukes

now expanded

NATO

in Russia’s face

Russian fleet in Crimea

part of the Gorbachev deal

Russian separatists

in eastern Ukraine

the

end of the USSR

created these geopolitics

roiling today

as the players

spin

their fateful moves

on a Wednesday

in Geneva

6/16/21