NATO has practically destroyed the Ukrainian state organism, writes Alexander Nekrassov. The West is now doing business with official Kiev, guided by a very similar principle, he says.

Kiev is openly manipulated, used as a tool in the fight against Russia, Nekrachov says. Do the U.S. and Europe know how to produce attractive political “carrots”? Nekrashov asks. He says the Ukrainian elite keeps repeating a mantra: “We need to join NATO, we need NATO”