Germany may very well be the single biggest trump card the West has vis-à-vis Russia today. German history provides Russia with a mirror image of what happens to countries when they behave in a jingoist, militaristic, and autocratic way, as opposed to when they act in a more self-critical and truly liberal-democratic fashion. The West really has to find better ways to play that trump card.ke some good points, which a few Russians may even have heard. But she missed a unique opportunity to convey to the broader Russian population how profoundly counterproductive Russia’s current behavior is—from a European as well as a Russian point of view.
Germany may very well be the single biggest trump card the West has vis-à-vis Russia today. German history provides Russia with a mirror image of what happens to countries when they behave in a jingoist, militaristic, and autocratic way, as opposed to when they act in a more self-critical and truly liberal-democratic fashion. The West really has to find better ways to play that trump card.
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