Hybrid Conflict and Encirclement: Reconfiguration of Eastern Europe by NATO, Trade Barriers, and a Chinese Solution for Greece
Journal: International Relations and Diplomacy
Year: 2015

The Russian Federation unilaterally invaded the Republic of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula, then commenced to occupy more of Eastern Ukraine on the transparent pretext of protecting Russian speakers in 2014, using masked "zombie" fighters but denied that they were uniformed Russian soldiers, violating several agreements from 1954 to 1994 and legitimate international expectations before and afterwards. Elections were held, seriatim, one after another, contrived supposedly to reflect the wishes of et