BBCNEWS HARDtalk June 4, 2024 23:51:00
I do not think the assessment is right. i am not sure that your attempts to isolate russia succeeded. i think that the west perhaps made some tactical gains, but it is losing strategically. one thing that is clear outcome of those sanctions that the west introduced, is that you lost practically any leverage on russia at all. you know that president putin, even before this conflict, he said once that the west can introduce all the sanctions they can. we had no illusions before, and we will not have any illusions there. six months into the fighting, it has become a grim battle of wills. russian ...