Russia Will Not Yield |
Russia Will Not Yield
Dr. Notte is the author of “We Shall Outlast Them: Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West,” from which this essay is adapted.
“Putin is now isolated from the world more than ever,” President Joe Biden proclaimed in his State of the Union address in March 2022. One week before, President Vladimir Putin of Russia had ordered his tanks into Ukraine, prompting Western nations to sever ties with Russia and throw their support behind Kyiv. The shock over Mr. Putin’s brazen land grab reverberated across the globe. Many expected Russia to turn into a bête noire.
But it soon dawned on Russia’s adversaries that the country wasn’t going anywhere. Forced to prepare for a long war, the Kremlin instructed its diplomats, intellectuals and operatives to secure support in the non-Western world. Many countries proved........