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Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: Russia’s New Vision for Taking on the West
In its latest foreign policy blueprint, published at the end of March, the Kremlin outlines ambitious but vague plans for countering the United States and Washington’s allies around the globe
On 31 March, the Kremlin spelled out its vision for a new “foreign policy concept” – in the first such strategy document Russia has released since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
- Oleg Ignatov
- ICG
The document is a radical departure from the previous foreign policy concept, which was published in November 2016.
The 2023 text confirms what many analysts have long thought to be the…