The West must learn hard lessons from years of failed russia policies

By Kira Rudik

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The tragedy of russia’s criminal invasion could have been avoided if the West had sent an unambiguous message to moscow ...... Instead, too much trust was placed in the ability of deepening economic ties to deter international aggression, while modern russia’s retreat into old-style imperialism was not taken sufficiently seriously.

Read more here🔗 https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/the-west-must-learn-hard-lessons-from-years-of-failed-russia-policies/

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The West must learn hard lessons from years of failed Russia policies

If Russia is able to achieve even a partial victory in Ukraine, the consequences for global security would be catastrophic. Western leaders must escalate their support for Ukraine to prevent this outcome and make sure Putin’s invasion ends in decisive defeat, writes Kira Rudik.

Atlantic Council

☝️ Good piece on the catastrophic failure of business-driven appeasement of the kremlin neoimperialist.

「Members of the Russian establishment remained convinced that while their Western counterparts enjoyed making idealistic speeches, they were ultimately driven by a far baser hunger for money. This Russian contempt for so-called Western values was further strengthened by experience, particularly the indecently rapid clamor for a return to business-as-usual following Moscow’s 2008 invasion of Georgia. The same was true in the wake of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine.

Russian perceptions of Western weakness and hypocrisy directly paved the way for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. 」

The same #NoConsequences policy failures apply to business-driven appeasement of the zhongnanhai neoimperialists in Beijing, which started all the way back in the 1970s but inexplicably (read: greed) went into overdrive *after* the 1989 Tiananmen massacre and all the 'domestic' repression in China and its occupied lebenraum territories that followed.

💥 Instead of (free) trade being used as a leverage to discourage #dictatorship, it became a tool for *empowering* it!

The sociopath taking over kremlin in 2000 might have no EQ and an IQ of under 60 and still see the CCP thriving in the Business Uber Alles environment further enabled with the granting of the #WTO membership (to manipulate in every means possible).

And with the CCP now empowered, all tinpot despots across the globe are aligning under its "safe for #authoritarianism" umbrella...

The rest is history now unfolding, with all those business-driven democracies shocked and dismayed and wondering "how did we get here!?". ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#russia #ccp #china #HandelOhneWandel #appeasement #authaxis
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