“In the long run, bringing Ukraine and its smaller neighbours into both the European Union and NATO,”
I agree with this but they need to come in accepting the values of NATO and the EU, it will be a huge failure if these nations come in then are taken over by their own Orbans and the EU once again lacks the guts to kick them out
Read the whole article of how Putin did for Pushkin on the ECFR website. Many thanks for this broad sweep of European history (of which Russia is definitely a part) and the perspective on the fall of empires. Putin’s dictatorship will be swept away sooner or later, preferably sooner, but Russia will still be there; the impact of its its rebirth as a different nation will, as the author so clearly writes, dominate the geopolitical agenda for the next 40 or 50 years.
“In the long run, bringing Ukraine and its smaller neighbours into both the European Union and NATO,”
I agree with this but they need to come in accepting the values of NATO and the EU, it will be a huge failure if these nations come in then are taken over by their own Orbans and the EU once again lacks the guts to kick them out
Read the whole article of how Putin did for Pushkin on the ECFR website. Many thanks for this broad sweep of European history (of which Russia is definitely a part) and the perspective on the fall of empires. Putin’s dictatorship will be swept away sooner or later, preferably sooner, but Russia will still be there; the impact of its its rebirth as a different nation will, as the author so clearly writes, dominate the geopolitical agenda for the next 40 or 50 years.
Loved this - and the longer FT article as well. Ten cheers all around!