Editor’s Note: This is the second essay in a multi-author series on “Getting Russia Right.” Read the first installment by Karina Orlova here.After two years of “Putin’s Master Plan” and “New Cold War?” chyrons, it’s not surprising to see some pushback. Unlike President Trump’s “Russia hoax” denials, these revisions are intended to stiffen our resistance.Writing in Foreign Policy, under a “Don’t Believe the Russian Hype” headline, Swedish defense researchers Robert Dalsjö, Michael Jonsson, and Christopher Berglund warn that NATO is psyching itself out when it accepts “at face value” Russia’s claims about its missile systems and its ability in a …read more
Source: The American Interest
