In Ukraine, the clash of arms has revived the old wall that once separated Russia from the West. But that's not all. The words and theories to describe the state of the world now also describe two parallel realities that almost nothing brings together. Nikolai Patrushev's lengthy interview on May 3 with Izvestia, the old Russian newspaper founded in 1917, is a striking, if not staggering, illustration of this. The influential Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, one of Vladimir Putin's closest collaborators and one of the main Russian "hawks", unfolds his geopolitical vision of this beginning of the 21st century.
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It boils down to a total conflagration – political, military and societal – with a West as hated as it is obsessive to Russian nationalists. Nothing really new under the rising sun in the East, but the exercise appears as an ideal-type of the new Russian geopolitics in force in the Kremlin. "In the West, the destruction...
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