Commentary
International Relations
Poland’s EU Presidency: Shaping Enlargement Through Security – COMMENTARY
28 November 2024
11 July 2024
The West has no idea about how to deal with Russia and its citizens. There is currently no international strategy for how to hold Russia to account for its war with Ukraine, and how to behave towards Russia once the war one day comes to an end. Now is the time to form such a plan and ask the difficult, but necessary, geopolitical and socio-cultural questions – the NATO Summit in Washington would be a great platform to seriously begin this debate.
Russia’s superpower aspirations have long been the subject of keen observation in the West.
However, the Kremlin’s previous actions against Ukraine and Georgia, the slow political annexation of Belarus and the regime’s internal suppression of any last signs of democracy were not – or perhaps could not be – sufficient reason for Western democracies to act.