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“As efforts to revive the faltering peace process continue, it is important for Western policymakers to avoid being misled by Kremlin claims about Russia’s readiness for a diplomatic solution,” writes Kateryna Odarchenko...

#Russia #Putin #PutinsWar #theWest #USA #Europe #EU #Diplomacy #RussianImperialism #independence #NationalIdentity #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/for-putin-the-root-cause-of-the-war-is-the-existence-of-independent-ukraine/?utm_campaign=read&utm_content=20260902&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_term=Atlantic%20Council

“As efforts to revive the faltering peace process continue, it is important for Western policymakers to avoid being misled by Kremlin claims about Russia’s readiness for a diplomatic solution,” writes Kateryna Odarchenko...

#Russia #Putin #PutinsWar #theWest #USA #Europe #EU #Diplomacy #RussianImperialism #independence #NationalIdentity #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/for-putin-the-root-cause-of-the-war-is-the-existence-of-independent-ukraine/?utm_campaign=read&utm_content=20260902&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_term=Atlantic%20Council

“As efforts to revive the faltering peace process continue, it is important for Western policymakers to avoid being misled by Kremlin claims about Russia’s readiness for a diplomatic solution,” writes Kateryna Odarchenko...

#Russia #Putin #PutinsWar #theWest #USA #Europe #EU #Diplomacy #RussianImperialism #independence #NationalIdentity #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/for-putin-the-root-cause-of-the-war-is-the-existence-of-independent-ukraine/?utm_campaign=read&utm_content=20260902&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_term=Atlantic%20Council

“As efforts to revive the faltering peace process continue, it is important for Western policymakers to avoid being misled by Kremlin claims about Russia’s readiness for a diplomatic solution,” writes Kateryna Odarchenko...

#Russia #Putin #PutinsWar #theWest #USA #Europe #EU #Diplomacy #RussianImperialism #independence #NationalIdentity #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/for-putin-the-root-cause-of-the-war-is-the-existence-of-independent-ukraine/?utm_campaign=read&utm_content=20260902&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_term=Atlantic%20Council

“As efforts to revive the faltering peace process continue, it is important for Western policymakers to avoid being misled by Kremlin claims about Russia’s readiness for a diplomatic solution,” writes Kateryna Odarchenko...

#Russia #Putin #PutinsWar #theWest #USA #Europe #EU #Diplomacy #RussianImperialism #independence #NationalIdentity #Ukraine #RussiaUkraineWar
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/for-putin-the-root-cause-of-the-war-is-the-existence-of-independent-ukraine/?utm_campaign=read&utm_content=20260902&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_source=linkedin&utm_term=Atlantic%20Council

"Some of the most effective Kremlin propaganda strategies do not necessarily invent entirely new events.

Instead, they take real developments – a border restriction, a military exercise, a diplomatic dispute – and reframe them as evidence that Russia is ‘under constant attack from the West’."
- EUvsDisinfo

#propaganda #narratives #Russia #Kremlin #EUvsDisinfo #theWest

Multilateralism for middle powers

" Multilateralism is shorthand for the much-invoked “rules-based international order”; multipolarity is the world of competing spheres of interest, what Stubb calls “an oligopoly of power”, where the strong do what they will and the weak do what they must.

We are not simply in a transition; we are in a fight for a future world order. And the path to a healthy outcome necessarily runs through international institutions, from the UN to settings far beyond it, where we must rethink membership and power for global cooperation to survive.The world is being reshaped by the “structural” forces of demography, climate and technology,

Part of the problem, Stubb argues, is that “the US is not a modern society by European or Asian standards”. This helps to explain the growing influence of a radical form of evangelical Christianity within the Trump administration. But it also accounts for the absence of adequate healthcare, education and housing that plagues the US, in particular, and neoliberal economies like Australia’s more generally.

Without strong multilateral systems, all interstate deals become transactional. A multipolar world runs on self-interest. A multilateral world makes the common interest a self-interest. " >>
https://theconversation.com/finlands-president-alexander-stubb-has-some-ideas-to-save-the-international-order-and-ourselves-280153
#Multilateralism #MiddlePowers #Australia #TheWest #InternationalOrder #SelfInterest #oligopoly