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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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From: Sun Tzu12/21/2016 6:27:26 PM
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Making Russia Great Again

I had no idea how busy Putin has been in restoring Russia. This is an interesting read.

theatlantic.com

On the global chessboard, there has been no more deft and brilliant (and of late, lucky) player than Putin. From the early days of his presidency a decade and a half ago, he began to signal that he intended to make Russia great again, and that he saw this imperative as a zero-sum game: As the West gained friendships among post-communist states, Russia lost, and so everything possible had to be done to force Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and the Balkan states out of a Western liberal orientation and back into the greater Russian orbit.


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