Only Europe can prevent an Eastern bloc.
- Bruno Maçães
- Politico
Europe’s obsession with Russia is unrequited. Moscow just isn’t interested in the Continent anymore.
It doesn’t care about European integration, or moving toward Europe. But neither is it interested in Europe’s predicted disintegration, or in pulling countries away from the West and closer to its way of thinking.
In the halls of the Kremlin these days, it’s all about China — and whether or not Moscow can convince Beijing to form an alliance against the West.
Russia’s obsession with a…