As a major new study by the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) makes clear, Russian aggression is not a passing phenomenon. Over the past three decades, Russia's post-Soviet leadership has consistently concluded that it needs to maintain military dominion in its former empire, as well as the ability to control political, economic, and even social developments in its erstwhile vassals.
To achieve this dominance, Russia's leaders have likewise concluded that undermining the structures of US and European power in the world — ranging from NATO and transatlantic solidarity to the rules of the global trading and financial systems — is a critical Russian national-security interest.
US Capitulation on Ukraine Will Bring Another War - CEPA