Obama and flags: why the US didn’t intervene in the Crimea conflict

Barack Obama between US and Estonian flags — symbol of Western diplomacy during the 2014 Ukraine crisis

The image shows former U.S. President Barack Obama standing between the flags of the United States and Estonia. It symbolizes the diplomatic context of 2014, when the West chose not to enter a military conflict over Crimea, as later admitted by an Obama advisor.

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