Putin:
“It would mean that NATO countries, the US, European countries, are at war with Russia…
We will take the appropriate decisions based on the threats that we will face.”
This move raises global security concerns, intensifying fears of direct NATO-Russia confrontation.
History, Ferguson argues, shows us that major conflicts typically arise from two conditions: economic volatility and imperial decline. Both are present in geopolitics today.
The collapse of the Soviet Union created a vacuum in Eastern Europe. Putin’s Russia, like Germany after World War I, emerged from this collapse with a sense of humiliation and revanchist ambitions.
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