(FP) Forget about dealing with Trump or Putin. Europe’s Russia strategy should focus on winning over the Russian people. — If there were ever a time for Europe to develop a Russia strategy independent of Washington, it is now. For most of the period since Russia annexed Crimea, Russian propagandists and foreign-policy mouthpieces have been harping on Europe to break ranks with Washington, pursue its natural material interests, and do a deal. With the election of Donald Trump, the Kremlin may finally have gotten the wedge it wanted in the trans-Atlantic bloc — just not quite in the way Moscow may have expected. […]
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Director of King's Russia Institute and Professor of Russian Politics
Affiliation
King's College London
Expertise
Relationships of Power in Russia, Authoritarianism, Protest, Mobilization, Social-Economic-Political Transformation
