Coop-AFF Stuff

THE US SHOULD BECOME CLOSE TO RUSSIA NOW WHILE THE TIME IS RIGHT

Kaplan in '97'

Kaplan, 97 (Morton A., The wrong solution to the wrong problem: Russia's Crisis and NATO's Expansion., Vol. 12, The World & I, Nov. 1, p. 310)

     Someday, Russia again will be the most powerful country in Europe. We need to co-opt it while its need for us is greatest and when co-optation can provide reassurance against the fears raised by the federation' s fissiparous tendencies. The desire to cooperate is present in Russia, for it thinks of itself primarily as a European nation and did so even during the headiest days of the Soviet Empire
