Russian pilots upon their return from Syria to a Russian air base in Primorsko-Akhtarsk, southern Russia, 16th March. ©AP/Press Association Images
by Robert Fry: a very unChinese standoff in the South China Sea
Kremlinology is a pastime for consenting adults in private. Trying to divine Russian motives and objectives is a speculative game for anyone other than the deep specialist and usually ends with a Churchillian reference to riddles wrapped in a mysteries inside enigmas. So let’s try a different approach. Let’s take the universal principles of strategic calculus, apply them to Russian actions and see what we can come up …read more
Source: Prospect
