Resumen de Russia’s perpetual geopolitics

Stephen Kotkin

• The article discusses ways Russian President Vladimir Putin is returning to depend on the state to keep up with the gap between Russia and the West. Topics discussed include the Russians' abiding sense of living in a providential country with a special mission, the need for a redefinition of sense of exceptionalism and put aside their unwinnable competition with the West, and how Russia's own regime is causing its structural decline.