Thought we should have a thread to discuss other stuff that happens in the world. I read this the other day and thought it was quite interesting. A good background to what’s happening on the Russian borders.
adamtooze.substack.com
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Chartbook #68 Putin's Challenge to Western hegemony - the 2022 edition.
As NATO meets to discuss the tension on the Russian border to Ukraine, and the papers fill with denunciations of Putin’s aggression, I still find it useful to return to the framework I developed in Crashed for analyzing the intersection of geopolitics and economics and the rise of Russia as a...