After Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the world wonders how far Putin is really willing to push. Experts on Russia from around the globe offer a look at what we can expect next 👇
This week brought an abrupt and horrifying answer to a mystery that had absorbed the world for months, as Russian troops massed around the Ukrainian border: Was Russian President Vladimir Putin really trying to start a war?
To look ahead to where this conflict is headed and what might be driving an increasingly autocratic leader with deep historical grievances and a nuclear arsenal at his disposal — POLITICO Magazine reached out to a range of experts, from Russians who know Putin as their day-to-day leader, to former diplomats and others who’ve encountered him directly, to experts outside the United States and Europe who have insights of their own. The good news is that most of them saw limits to Putin’s goals.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, French President Emmanuel Macron and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive at a working session in Paris on Dec. 9, 2019. | Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool via AP Kathryn Stoner is the director of and senior fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University and the author, most recently, ofhe Kremlin has employed overwhelming force because the goal is to go far beyond Putin’s pretext of protecting Russian compatriots in the rump republics of the Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics that the Russian government officially recognized as independent states on Monday.
Terrell Jermaine Starr, currently living in Kyiv, is the founder and host of the Black Diplomats Podcast and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.he issue with Putin is that none of what we are seeing has anything to do with geopolitics. It has nothing to do with NATO. This is about Putin subjugating Ukrainians into a sphere of Russianness. He is doing this because Ukrainians are not real people to him. That’s how he views Ukraine.
Russian tanks during military drills at a training ground in Belarus, Feb. 19, 2022. | Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr./AP Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G-20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. | Kim Kyung-Hoon/Pool via AP
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