The West is losing to the KGB colonel, - editor of The Economist
Kyiv, March 22 (PolitNavigator, Vladimir Raichenko) – After the Russian Federation was headed by an ex-KGB colonel, the West began to lose to Russia.
Edward Lucas, editor of the British edition of The Economist for Eastern and Central Europe, vice-president of the Center for European Policy Analysis, writes about this on the pages of the Kyiv magazine “New Time”.
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“The appearance of an ex-KGB colonel in the Kremlin in 2000 and the subsequent enrichment of Russia due to rising oil prices inflated local revisionism to such an extent that it was noticed even in Europe,” Lucas believes. – Repression within the country and external aggression are the black stars by which the Kremlin is now determining its course. But the West still believes that sanctions are effective, problems will be limited to Ukraine, and diplomacy and patience are enough to win. Carried away by Kremlinology and fortune-telling, the West never asked itself three key questions: what Russia wants, why it is winning, and how to stop it.”
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