If Russia invades Ukraine, what's next?
Right now it would appear that Washington, London, Brussels and indeed Moscow are not considering what comes next or what comes thereafter.
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Right now it would appear that Washington, London, Brussels and indeed Moscow are not considering what comes next or what comes thereafter.
Putin’s 2007 speech to the Munich Security Conference, which was delivered 15 years ago this Thursday, was the first moment when Western leaders were forced to reckon with Russian anxieties head-on.
Indeed, Russia’s deepening economic ties with China may delay its action on Ukraine, at least for the time of an Olympics.
A well-functioning democracy on Russia’s border could threaten Putin’s “forever presidency,” his aim to be the longest serving leader since Peter the Great.
Is this Russian-engineered crisis serious and thus resolvable; desperate in that no diplomatic solution appears possible; or even a bit absurd?