2/28/2023 0 Comments Age of empires 3 german strategyHence, the traditional world-leading overall economic vigour in the western European Continent can no longer be sustained, and so will her highly-admired culture and civilization in the eyes of the people living elsewhere, in the rest of this century. Western Europe had already lagged behind in the ICT technological revolution during the latter part of the last century, and today it remains also a relative laggard in the ongoing 5G/6G/AI/robot/medical global technological innovations or revolutions. Now it can more convincingly be argued that the prosperity or dominance of a region's culture or civilization depends much on the dominant and persistent economic vigour of the regions in the world, which in turn has to be strongly supported by the region's world-dominant geopolitical and military positions under the sun, which in turn have had to rely on her persistent world-dominance of real technological innovation and development relative to the rest of the world. If, militarily speaking in Ukraine, Russia is on the run, then culturally speaking in the coming world, Western Europe is on the run as well. Instead, Europe’s response should be “to adopt properly and implement fully the proposed G7 price cap on oil – and to extend the same principle to coal.” Featured in this Big Picture Nor is economic appeasement an option, says MIT’s Simon Johnson. But what is really protecting Putin from internal challenges to his rule is not the Kremlin’s narrative about Ukraine, which “not all Russians are buying,” but rather naked repression.įor Ukraine, Russia’s tyranny is straightforward, and as Anders Åslund, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum, notes, fighting it will require more from the West than a “steady supply of arms.” Ukraine also needs drastically increased financial support, so that it can afford to keep its government functioning without relying on inflationary debt monetization.Īt the same time, warns Slavoj Žižek of the University of London, the West must not “play into Putin’s hands” by bypassing Ukraine and brokering a settlement with Russia – a strategy that would support the Kremlin narrative that Ukraine is a colony, rather than a sovereign country. Khrushcheva, by “papering over” the fact that the war in Ukraine is a “strategic disaster” for Russia and that the international community will never recognize Putin’s latest territorial claims. Putin’s “nuclear bluster” is also supposed to help him at home, says the New School’s Nina L. Putin may “simulate insanity,” but it is “‘rational’ brinkmanship,” aimed at “intimidating Ukraine and the West” in a way Russia’s “failing army” cannot. While Putin has shown no compunction about sending Russians to their deaths, Josef Joffe of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies argues that he is unlikely to deploy a nuclear weapon, even a “little” tactical one. But Russian President Vladimir Putin still possesses a massive nuclear arsenal and plenty of cannon fodder – and may be unafraid to use them. Recent developments in Ukraine – including an attack on the symbolically important and strategically vital Kerch Strait Bridge linking Russia to Crimea, and, more importantly, Ukrainian forces’ liberation of huge swaths of territory that Russia had just “annexed”– have set the Kremlin on edge.
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