a role for which she won the 2004 Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy. She’s also the recipient of a Tony Award (for her role in The Little Foxes) and a Grammy Award (for her audio book narration of Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth).

I love New York, and today I'm announcing my candidacy for governor. Join us: https://t.co/9DwsxWW8xX pic.twitter.com/kYTvx6GZiD — Cynthia Nixon (@CynthiaNixon) March 19, 2018A new Western strategy toward Russia

As the Ukraine crisis continues, even after the successful presidential election, the immediate challenges obscure a less visible but even more important issue: what is the long-term strategy toward Russia?

The new realities exemplified by Ukraine demand a robust three-part approach. In dealing with Russia, the U.S., together with its allies, must enhance deterrence, reduce strategic economic dependency, and retain diplomatic cooperation when interests coincide. The desirable outcome is a Russia that will not use force or intimidation to generate geopolitical outcomes and will cooperate with the West on common interests.

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First, since Putin has demonstrated his willingness to adjust European borders by force, NATO needs to deter Russia from further aggression. Russia's annexation of Crimea completely ignored the 1994 agreement among the United States,