Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,
The new "cordon sanitaire" that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia, the difficulty in maintaining its Sino-Indo balancing act, and the broken feedback loops that afflict its Foreign Ministry are the main strategic risks that must be urgently addressed in order to most effectively ensure Russia's future.
Putin wisely advised Russians during his keynote speech at the Valdai Club's latest annual meeting that "we certainly need a roadmap for our movement into the future. What we need is not wishful thinking, an abstract and speculative construct or an unrealistic visualisation of our wishes, but a realistic assessment of risks, capabilities and essential objectives." His clarion call inspired the present piece that'll enumerate Russia's top three strategic challenges and propose pragmatic ways to address them.
The "cordon sanitaire" that Trump 2.0 assembled around Russia poses its primary threat. It encircles Russia in the Arctic-Baltic through the Swedish-led Viking Bloc, Central Europe via
