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04/02/2022

Ian Birrell

Last month there was a three-hour debate in parliament entitled “Putin’s Grand Strategy.” It began with a passionate speech by Tory backbencher Sir Bernard Jenkin, who spoke about the “admirably precise” focus of the Russian president, while lamenting the lack of similarly clear-sighted goals among many democratic states. He laid out in detail the Kremlin’s strategy: to end the United States’s global hegemony, drive a wedge between Washington and Europe, become the pre-eminent power on our continent and “re-establish Russia’s de facto control over as much of the former Soviet Union and its sphere of influence as possible.”

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25/01/2022

Oleksandr DANYLYUK, Center for Defense Reforms

The Russian president’s agenda is back to the USSR.

The incessant speculation about the purpose and objectives of Russia’s massing of troops on Ukraine’s borders continues, as do the efforts of politicians to seek dialogue with the Kremlin to prevent Russian aggression. Yet the vast majority of scenarios voiced by analysts and government officials involve a very traditional military invasion, with almost no predictions of Russia’s actions in other domains, or an assessment of how these actions could be synchronised with Russian military operations and the thought process underpinning them.

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