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From Stratfor: "Shifting political winds and growing discord among Western powers that, so far, have stood shoulder-to-shoulder against Russia have created an opening for Moscow as it seeks to bring an end to its two-year standoff with the West. Following the 2014 revolution in Ukraine, Russia's intervention in the country’s east and its annexation of Crimea drew a series of economic sanctions from the United States and the European Union that are still in force. Today, both Russia and NATO members are building up their forces along Russia's western borderlands, and relations between Moscow and many Western powers are at a post-Cold War low. Though Russia is interested in easing tensions with the West, it will not trade away its strategic position in the region by relieving pressure on Ukraine or other countries along its border to do so."