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The West Is Still Getting Russia Wrong

Inna Bondarenko and Dan Sleat

14 May 20264 Minute Read

Industrial units ablaze, after Wagner Group stooges – later jailed – set fire to a warehouse.

Industrial units ablaze, after Wagner Group stooges – later jailed – set fire to a warehouse.

Sabotage: Industrial units ablaze, after Wagner Group stooges – later jailed – set fire to a warehouse. Image: PA Images / Alamy Stock

While Vladimir Putin views Russia as a great power and civilizational counterweight to Western liberalism, he does not have a coherent plan to remake the world, let alone the capacity to do so. Because of this weakness, the Kremlin is focused not on domination, but on disruption.

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Inna Bondarenko

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Dan Sleat

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