As the US is engaged in pre-election navel-gazing, Russia is not taking a summer nap. The Kremlin never sleeps, and especially not in August, and not during the Olympic season. The Beijing Olympics in 2008 coincided with the Russia-Georgian conflict, and the Ukrainian crisis developed during the Sochi Winter Olympics.
President Vladimir Putin is reformatting the strategic power balance in Eurasia. Recreating of the USSR 2.0 is underway both domestically and externally. To paraphrase Ronald Reagan, the essence of Putin’s doctrine is Russia wins – the West loses.
On August 8, Putin attended an historical meeting in Baku with his counterparts …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
