Thirty years later, and almost one year into Russia’s full-scale invasion, Russia and Ukraine are now fighting the largest land war in Europe since World War II. Baker was a key interlocutor not just with Yeltsin but earlier with Gorbachev, as the Soviet Union began to implode in the late 1980s. There were similar concerns about Russia’s nuclear weapons. “When the Soviet Union broke up, the U.S. was concerned about conflict breaking out across the former Soviet Union,” Graham said. “The Bush administration was worried about Yugoslavia scenarios in the former Soviet Union,” he said.
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