Editor’s Note: How do Russia and the West see one another? What are the experts’ views on the confrontation between Russia and the West? How do the pundits explain the Russo-Ukrainian war and Russia’s Syrian gambit? What are the roots of the mythology about Russia in the West, and why has the West failed to predict and understand Russia’s trajectory? This is the seventh essay in a series that seeks to answer these questions. Read part six here.Russia’s war against Ukraine has disproven quite a few predictions, testing the expert community’s ability to analyze the situation and foresee developments. For …read more
Source: The American Interest
