A Reagan doctrine against Putin
It will be up to historians to say precisely when the Third World War began. In 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea? In 2008, when Russia covertly annexed South Ossetia? In 2020, when Beijing adopted the National Security Law, effectively abolishing Hong Kong’s autonomy? Or even earlier, before the end of the USSR, with the operations orchestrated or taken over by the KGB in Nagorno-Karabakh (1988-1994), Transnistria (1990-1992) and Abkhazia (1992-1993)? It will also be up to them to understand whether the fall of Gorbachev and the end of the USSR constituted a rupture or whether the ‘Yeltsin’ parenthesis should rather be considered in the same way as the use of separatist movements – as part of a wider strategy of Russian revanchist and imperialist power structures and circles. Lire la suite