Blowback: Putin’s Diatribe Against the West

While the speech is being analyzed from the perspective of domestic politics, geopolitics, military strategy, energy strategy, diplomacy and international law, the defining particularity was emotions. No more axis of evil, no more subservience to carpetbaggers telling lowly Russia how to organize its government and society after the end of the Soviet Union, no more pivot to Asia forgetting Russia, no more end of history. Putin announced to the world, “Russia is back,” and it’s back on its own terms.

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