A nation must think before it acts.
FPRI’s Jakub Grygiel in the American Interest on “The Russian Autocrat’s Eternal Return”
“Russia has always presented a puzzle to the Western analyst and policymaker. Too big to be ignored, yet too weak to be considered the principal menace by the West; too authoritarian and corrupt to be accepted, yet too geographically and culturally proximate to be fully rejected; too bad-tempered to be a partner, yet too frail to be an existential rival. Above all, Russia’s foreign policy motivations remain in the end undecipherable, even though her violent power projections draw clear and wider lines on the map.”