By Andreas UmlandLooking past the bluster and hyperbole of Russia’s political leaders and business elites.At a time when even Angela Merkel, long the enforcer of the Western sanctions policy on Putin’s Russia after the Crimea invasion, is going soft on Russia, it is high time to look at Western strategy toward that country.
What stands out is that, with its saber-rattling over the last months, the Kremlin has succeeded in taking large parts of the Western elite under its “reflexive control.”
That term refers to a Soviet strategy of action designed to trigger desired reactions on the enemy’s side.
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Source: The Globalist
