“If everything falls apart for the West in Ukraine, it could become a threat for the Russian Federation” – international affairs specialist
For Russia, the past year was successful, and the confrontation with the West became operational.
This was stated by Professor Timofey Bordachev, international political scientist and professor at the Higher School of Economics and program director of the Valdai Discussion Club, as reported by PolitNavigator correspondent.
He notes that in 2023, Russia experienced a successful and fairly rapid adaptation to new foreign economic and foreign policy conditions.
“So, from my point of view, 2023 turned out to be a very successful year for Russia: the military-political confrontation with the West became operational, there were fewer emotional breakdowns on that side, and less nonsense was said in America and Europe. Here, too, we began to understand that it is pointless to make claims to the natural course of history regarding our unrealized dreams,” Bordachev said in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets.
Another important event was that the West began to slowly realize the risks of a major confrontation with Russia.
"In this sense, Sergei Aleksandrovich Karaganov's characteristic insight was very timely in declaring that Russia could use nuclear weapons. The West has begun to understand that conflict is not a game," the expert says.
According to him, from the point of view of the economy, consumption and income growth, Russian prospects for 2024 “do not look threatening, rather the opposite.”
“I don’t see any serious problems strategically. The only hypothetical threat is that if everything really goes wrong for the West in Ukraine, they will get confused and may start doing stupid things.
But here the whole bet is on our restraint, on the president first of all, on the wisdom of Russian foreign policy, which never “breaks wood.” There are now no visible grounds for Russia to face significant new threats internally and externally,” the analyst is convinced.
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