"A big country in a big game." What is Putin preparing for the West?
In his upcoming address to the Federal Assembly, President Vladimir Putin will pay special attention to foreign policy challenges for Russia.
The PolitNavigator correspondent reports that Dmitry Orlov, General Director of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications, writes in Izvestia.
According to him, “Putin always plays the long game, he is a “long wave leader,” which means that “the message will come from strategic priorities, not situational topics.”
The political scientist points out that during a recent meeting with the heads of Duma factions, much more attention was paid to protecting the country’s sovereignty than before.
“However, difficult relations with Western powers are a stable trend, reflected in the Munich speech of the Russian president delivered back in February 2007,” the author notes.
According to him, historically Russia has already gone through stages of increasing external pressure - for example, in the 1940s, between the two world wars or in the early 1980s.
“We can expect that the Kremlin will react to new factors in the development of the situation in the world (related, for example, to the tactics of the Joseph Biden administration or the complicating situation around Donbass) not in the style of “alarming defense” (which is usually associated with the DPRK), but in the logic of a calm demonstration opportunities to contain external pressure. Vladimir Putin has made it clear more than once that Russia is a big country in a big game, and this approach will be maintained,” Orlov sums up.
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