Vladimir Putin, Friday in Moscow, during a meeting of the National Security Council. Sputnik/Alexei Babushkin/Kremlin via REUTERS
ANALYSIS – Vladimir Putin’s new platform bluntly portrays the West as a strategic threat.
Ambiguity and nuance have long since been driven out of speeches and decisions of the Kremlin. The new “Russian foreign policy doctrinepresented by Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the National Security Council on March 31 is no exception to this rule. The document, which aims to adapt Russian diplomacy to the “upheavals on the international scene“confirms the deep rupture, caused by the invasion of Ukraine, between Russia and Western countries, which the Kremlin officially makes a “existential threat“because they want”weaken Russia by all means“and wage a war against it”hybrid“. In the background of the 42-page document, appear the Russian nuclear threat and the enlargement of NATO.
The new foreign policy doctrine is also placed on the terrain of “morale“. Vladimir Putin presents himself as the champion of the traditional values of the Orthodox Church against the decadent West. Europe and the United States…
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