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Reuters: Neither US nor EU has strategy for Ukraine

Feb. 17, 2014, 9:20 a.m. | Reuters

US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland (L), US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey R. Pyatt (C), Ukraine opposition leaders Oleg Tiahnybok (C) and Vitali Klitschko (R).
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There's nothing like an old-fashioned expletive to add spice to a transatlantic difference of opinion.

But when US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was caught using the "F-word" on an unsecure telephone line to disparage European Union policy on Ukraine, it highlighted the fact that neither Washington nor Brussels has much of a strategy for handling the crisis in the former Soviet republic. 

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