Hitting Moscow – between strategic desperation and balance by force
Hitting Moscow – between strategic desperation and balance by force

Author(s): Catalin Balog
Subject(s): Peace and Conflict Studies, Russian war against Ukraine
Published by: IFIMES Mednarodni inštitut za bližnjevzhodne in balkanske študije
Summary/Abstract: A short dialogue, but full of geopolitical meaning that seems to mark the beginning of a new strategic era. Beyond the retorts attributed to Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, a fundamental question about the nature of global balance looms: can peace still be preserved without the assumption of force? The article proposes a layered analysis of this dilemma, exploring the responses of America, Russia and China, Europe's ambivalence, the opportunism of the non-Western world and Romania's insecure position – caught between loyalty and exposure. A lucid x-ray of a world in which neutrality becomes fiction, and war, a test of political will.

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