Are all the oldsters in power in the west just incapable of letting go of Cold War era biases? What is the obsession with opposing a capitalist Russia? In the past 30 years, to go from Yeltsin and Clinton hanging out, getting drunk and doing who knows what together while the former Soviet economy is shredded, to Russia allowing US logistics to travel through their territory to facilitate imperial adventurism in Afghanistan while Bush and Putin ride horses together at camp David, to Putin now being the greatest threat to western civilization despite providing the EU with a substantial amount of oil for their energy needs is such a ridiculous course of events. idk how anyone can take western international relations seriously.
Are all the oldsters in power in the west just incapable of letting go of Cold War era biases?
The Anglosphere tradition of wanting to keep Russia weak or even Balkanized predates the USSR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History
Yeah it basically originates when Russia became the global land power after defeating Napoleon and the brits got real antsy about it.
NATO as an organization was structured and organized around opposition to Russia. Without Russia as an enemy it has no purpose and risks members leaving to pursue their own national interests. The later inclusion of Russophobes in Poland and the Baltic States into NATO also further complicated any chance of reconciliation with a capitalist Russia.
No more Mister Nice Putin.
I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
