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The world that Vladimir Putin wants to see

The Russian President would rather have a global disorder where Russia is central, than an order where it is peripheral.

It is time to call things by their proper names. The Russian invasion of Ukraine was never about Moscow’s fears of NATO enlargement, much less Ukrainian membership of the alliance.

Nor was it the action of an insecure president, concerned about a stagnating economy and his political legitimacy, and therefore anxious to secure a foreign policy victory.

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