Editor’s Note: How do Russia and the West see one another? What are the experts’ views on the confrontation between Russia and the West? How do the pundits explain the Russo-Ukrainian war and Russia’s Syrian gambit? What are the roots of the mythology about Russia in the West, and why has the West failed to predict and understand Russia’s trajectory? This is the fourth essay in a series that seeks to answer these questions. Read part three here.When one looks at what experts were saying a couple of years before they were doused by the cold shower of Putin’s war …read more
Source: The American Interest
