‘US should back off Russia stand-off’

The United States needs to take a step back from its confrontational policy on Ukraine and cooperate with both Europe and Russia, an analyst tells Press TV.

“I am concerned about the prospect of a hot war and that’s why we in the United States need to take a step back from our confrontational policy on Ukraine, realize there is no way to put Ukraine back together except in cooperation with Europe and with Russia,” James Jatras, a former US Senate foreign policy analyst from Washington said in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday.”

Jatras went on to say, “This idea of treating Ukraine as a zero-sum game is only further going to tear the country apart.”

The remarks come as an analysis to what Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently said about Washington’s interference in other countries’ affairs, accusing the United States of undermining the global stability by trying to impose its will on other countries.

Putin further noted that Russia did not initiate the ongoing tensions between Moscow and the West.

Jatras believes the US has taken a subjective attitude towards what are objective international standards, citing both Libya and Syria as cases in point. He concludes that Western powers “have no intention of abiding by the confines of international resolutions.”

Relations between Russia and the United States deteriorated after Ukraine launched aggressive military operations in mid-April to silence anti-Kiev protests in Ukraine’s mainly Russian speaking regions in the east.

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