Nikolas K. Gvosdev
Politics, Americas
Russia has acquired in Venezuela, as it has in Syria, a need to preserve the current regime in order to safeguard its investments.
One of the problems with continuing to box Russia into the European policy box is that Moscow, while not wielding all the resources of the former Soviet Union, can still wield influence in a number of different regions around the world. This myopia continually ignores the Russian role in East Asia as a factor for U.S. strategy in the region, notwithstanding Moscow’s strategic partnership with China and its balancing economic diplomacy with both Japan …read more
Source: The National Interest
