Sublime

As Russia shows, a superpower that never achieves the global dominance it believes it deserves is a dangerous one, capable of unleashing an aggressive clandestine foreign policy. Decline increases risk-taking.

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“As long as we don’t cross [a] line in our pursuit,” DPR wrote to Variety Jones, “then we are only doing good.” “Ha, dude, we’re criminal drug dealers,” VJ responded. “What line shouldn’t we cross?” “Murder, theft, cheating, lying; hurting people,” DPR replied, resentful of the question. “That line. We are drawing a new line I guess you could say.

IBRAHIM OTHMAN

Employees of the GRU, Russian military intelligence, have used radioactive poisons and nerve agents against enemies of the Kremlin in London and Salisbury, England, where their target survived but they accidentally murdered a British woman. Another assassin, sent by the Russian state, murdered a former Chechen fighter in the center of Berlin.