Like it or not, we are engaged in a long-term conflict with Russia. It has aptly been labeled the Hybrid War, and its principal novelty is radical asymmetry. Notwithstanding the frantic commentary one often hears on both sides, an Armageddon-like military conflagration is improbable. We are unlikely to see either a Russian blitzkrieg against the Baltic States or a NATO carrier group steaming into the Black Sea to bombard Sochi, Novorossiysk, and Rostov. Neither does the Hybrid War portend nuclear winter as an unintended prophylaxis against global warming. While the Kremlin’s propaganda image of Russia as a besieged fortress is …read more
Source: The American Interest
