LollerCorleone@kbin.social to World News@kbin.social · 1 year agoThreats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putinwww.bbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up117arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: ukraine@lemmit.onlineworldnews@lemmy.ml
arrow-up116arrow-down1external-linkThreats, insults, and Kremlin 'robots': How Russian diplomacy died under Putinwww.bbc.comLollerCorleone@kbin.social to World News@kbin.social · 1 year agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: ukraine@lemmit.onlineworldnews@lemmy.ml
Russian diplomacy is no longer about co-operation but “putting Westerners in their place”, say ex-Kremlin insiders.
minus-squarePons_Aelius@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up16·edit-21 year agoThe west spent 30 years bending over backwards placating Russia in an attempt to get their leaders to grow the fuck up and join the west. And Putin saw this as nothing but weakness. Well, those days are now dead and Vlad has condemned Russia to at least a generation as an outcaste state.
The west spent 30 years bending over backwards placating Russia in an attempt to get their leaders to grow the fuck up and join the west.
And Putin saw this as nothing but weakness.
Well, those days are now dead and Vlad has condemned Russia to at least a generation as an outcaste state.