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Thursday, May 17, 2018 - 15:43 (EEST) Section: International Institute for Strategic Studies (UK)

A strategic confrontation between Russia and the West has been under way for at least four years: for understandable reasons, given Russian President Vladimir Putin’s interference in the internal politics of the United States and some European countries, and his military adventurism in Ukraine and Syria. Yet Russia and the West are both poorly positioned to engage in a new strategic confrontation. The US faces domestic political turbulence as November 2018 mid-term elections approach and Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election enters its final phase. Europe is preoccupied with Brexit and rising populism. …read more

Source: International Institute for Strategic Studies