Foreign Affairs: “After three and a half years of full-scale conflict, the contours of Russia’s political economy reveal the boundaries of what the Kremlin can achieve. To defeat Putin’s grand goals, the United States and European countries must get a better grasp on the specific long-term vulnerabilities of the Russian economy and start exploiting them now.”
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