“So long as the soft under-bellies of our democratic world are left exposed, he will attack them,” George Robertson, the former head of NATO, says of the Russian president in a guest essay
in Ukraine is about more than Ukraine. In Vladimir Putin’s view it is part of his single-minded war on the West and on the kind of free societies that thrive there. Why don’t we see that reality with sufficient urgency?’s secretary-general at the time, alongside Mr Putin, I believed that Russia wished to join the club of countries that had put the cold war behind them. So did the leaders of the 19-member countries present at the table.
Sadly, Mr Putin’s increasingly personalised nationalism has undermined the chances of Russia wrapping itself in the co-operation which bindsnations together. I should have listened 30 years ago when a senior Russian official declared that “Russia is a graveyard of good intentions,” attributing the phrase, perhaps wrongly, to Winston Churchill. Mr Putin challenges our values, our way of life and our democratic peace.
Mr Putin has a burning ambition to recreate the respect for Russia he believed was given to the Soviet Union. The emotional side of his character, which I saw occasionally across that famous long, white table, has brooded on messianic demands for equality with America and the total assimilation of Ukraine. That has led to the brutal and unprovoked invasion of his neighbouring country.
Second, we must stand up to the dangerously loose talk from the Kremlin on using nuclear weapons. Russia, within its internationally recognised borders, is not being attacked. That means there is no required defence of the “motherland”, which might under Russian military doctrine trigger any nuclear response. This war is of Mr Putin’s making and we have no argument with the Russian people.
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