or somehow the material condition of living in the shadow of US forces Russia to gradually adopt socialist economic policy, because without economic planning, they don't have a good long-term chance of survival.
Radhika Desai recently hosted a webinar with some Russian intellectuals who claim that the foreign policy consensus in Russia changed drastically after Feb 2022. While Putin has always talked a big game against the West, they say, the state was still in practice trying to participate/cooperate with the West. Now they are fully giving up on that and looking to building up the "world majority" for long term strategy.
or somehow the material condition of living in the shadow of US forces Russia to gradually adopt socialist economic policy, because without economic planning, they don't have a good long-term chance of survival.
Radhika Desai recently hosted a webinar with some Russian intellectuals who claim that the foreign policy consensus in Russia changed drastically after Feb 2022. While Putin has always talked a big game against the West, they say, the state was still in practice trying to participate/cooperate with the West. Now they are fully giving up on that and looking to building up the "world majority" for long term strategy.
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