The Russia That Putin Made

Russia: see their actions in favor of “traditional families”, and Richard Hanania’s piece on Russia the “Great Satan in the Liberal Imagination”.

Think about how enthusiastic Putin has been about the “renationalization of the elites”, and how closely the CCP has been watching Western tactics during the Russo-Ukraine War. They recognize that any commercial linkage with the West is a point of vulnerability during a conflict.

Russia merits special mention given much of the above. On the one hand, its belief in sovereignty is near absolute lest others “interfere” with what goes on politically in Russia. At the same time, Russia has intervened militarily in Ukraine, seizing Crimea and undermining the government’s authority in other parts of the country. In addition, Russi

Disinformation enables Russian deniability. The Kremlin manipulates the news to confuse and sow doubt. Peter Pomerantsev, a former Russian television producer, identified the goal as the creation of an environment in which “people begin giving up on the facts.”55

the Kremlin now controls both Moscow and the White House.