Submission Statement: „Russia’s leader aims to cherry-pick concessions from the West, while imposing Soviet-style barriers between his people and outsiders.“ Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan outline how Vladimir Putin aims to restore Russia’s superpower status by subjugating Ukraine, viewing the war as part of a broader existential struggle against the West. The Kremlin seeks to manipulate perceptions and blame Europe for ongoing tensions while cherry-picking Western concessions to bolster its military and technological capabilities. Ultimately, Putin’s strategy involves isolating Russians from liberal ideas while maintaining a façade of diplomacy with the West.
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>When confronted with a choice between the costs of stability against the costs of modernization via globalization, the Russian authorities tend to choose isolation – as they have for centuries.
>When Tsar Nicolas I, mortally afraid of political changes and deeply traumatized by the Decembrists revolt, heard of the July 1830 revolution in Paris, he immediately recalled all Russian citizens from France to Russia, including the aristocrats, to prevent the virus of the French revolution spreading to his countrymen. He froze the country and halted innovation, but secured his regime.
History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes, does it ? I wonder if there is a cultural or geographical explanation for this tendency to isolationism in Russian elites ?
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Submission Statement: „Russia’s leader aims to cherry-pick concessions from the West, while imposing Soviet-style barriers between his people and outsiders.“ Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan outline how Vladimir Putin aims to restore Russia’s superpower status by subjugating Ukraine, viewing the war as part of a broader existential struggle against the West. The Kremlin seeks to manipulate perceptions and blame Europe for ongoing tensions while cherry-picking Western concessions to bolster its military and technological capabilities. Ultimately, Putin’s strategy involves isolating Russians from liberal ideas while maintaining a façade of diplomacy with the West.
>When confronted with a choice between the costs of stability against the costs of modernization via globalization, the Russian authorities tend to choose isolation – as they have for centuries.
>When Tsar Nicolas I, mortally afraid of political changes and deeply traumatized by the Decembrists revolt, heard of the July 1830 revolution in Paris, he immediately recalled all Russian citizens from France to Russia, including the aristocrats, to prevent the virus of the French revolution spreading to his countrymen. He froze the country and halted innovation, but secured his regime.
History doesn’t repeat but it rhymes, does it ? I wonder if there is a cultural or geographical explanation for this tendency to isolationism in Russian elites ?