Behind Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is a neo-imperial vision that many Russian elites share: to make Russia great again by reversing the results of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The fact that Russia lacks the means to achieve this will not stop it from pursuing its goal to the bitter end.
BERLIN – Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, changed everything for Ukraine, for Europe, and for global politics. The world entered a new era of great-power rivalry in which war could no longer be excluded. Apart from the immediate victims, Russia’s aggression most concerned Europe. A great power seeking to extinguish an independent smaller country by force challenges the core principles upon which the European order of states has organized itself for decades.
BERLIN – Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, changed everything for Ukraine, for Europe, and for global politics. The world entered a new era of great-power rivalry in which war could no longer be excluded. Apart from the immediate victims, Russia’s aggression most concerned Europe. A great power seeking to extinguish an independent smaller country by force challenges the core principles upon which the European order of states has organized itself for decades.