Russia, Destruktion and the World of Pozsar

Sergey Karaganov, a foreign policy strategist close to the Kremlin, has called the Putin doctrine “constructive destruction.” As Karaganov puts it, Russia wants to erase the existing global system, primarily by refusing to take part in it and play by its rules: the old system should be dismantled. On the constructive side there is a lot less clarity.

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