As Russia settles in for a lengthy period of tension with the United States and the West more broadly, how do Russians see the standoff shaping up? What might their long-term strategy be, and what sort of denouement might they envision, for what Russia Carnegie scholar Dmitry Trenin has dubbed the “Hybrid War?” After all, the Russians saw it coming long before we did: Putin’s memorable speech at the 2007 Munich Security Forum offered us a glimpse of Moscow’s mindset long before the Ukraine crisis erupted in 2014. Russia didn’t stumble inadvertently into its conflict with the West, and the …read more
Source: The American Interest
