Russia in Global Affairs

We must remember that mutual trust between society and the government has always been the basis of military success in history. When it is irrevocably violated, then no semantic euphemisms can help.

In this episode of #ThePrintUninterrupted, Fyodor Lukyanov tells ThePrint's Senior Consulting Editor Jyoti Malhotra that the people of Russia support President Vladimir Putin in the conflict against Ukraine, that the West wants to weaken Russia via the Ukraine conflict, that Russia is trying to evolve an alternative world order to that of the West, that China and Russia are in the same boat today vis-a-vis the US and that India's politics have become even more interesting.

The year 2022 turned everything inside out. With the benefit of hindsight – having overcome the shock everyone experienced in February, when Russian troops entered Ukraine – it’s not that difficult to explain how it came about. And even how it could not have been otherwise. Also, after a full ten months, it is pretty clear why the campaign did not go as planned.

In 2020, about a year before the “escape from Kabul” drama began to unfold, the academic collection of essays entitled On Strategy: A Primer hit the shelves in the United States. Chief editor of this book Nathan Finney well represents the modern cohort of U.S. staff officers boasting a remarkable combination of professional military training and fundamental university education.