Tag: Vladimir Putin



Whilst Europe and the U.S. never have been more closely aligned, the ‘West’ paradoxically has also never been more alone.

It would be no exaggeration to say that Putin has been the real peacemaker since coming to power, Robert Bridge writes.

The Ukrainians did a lot of things in 2021 calculated to anger Putin, and it is unlikely that they did so with the idea that they were putting themselves out on a limb, alone.

I don’t believe that Putin is primarily motivated to tweak the West. If anything, it’s more the other way around. His primary motivation is to militarily strike before Ukrainemightbecome a strong NATO beachhead, in conjunction with better securing the position of the Donbass rebels.