Well, Kennan was a racist, but I think his views on Russia aren't based so much on biological racism as on cultural orientalism (doesn't he call Stalin an Oriental Despot?).
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I think a problem is that once you give up the buffer states ring, as they did, getting them back feels defensive to Moscow but offensive to everyone else...
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