Russian Roulette LIVE: Putin's Global Campaign to Defeat the West with Hanna Notte

Russia's global strategy to "outlast" the West is improvised rather than coherent, with Europe — not the Global South — now the decisive battlefield.

• Book's thesis: Hanna Notte argues war became the "organizing principle" of Russian foreign policy after 2022, with Moscow pursuing an opportunistic, improvised strategy toward a strategic end-state of outlasting the West, not a coherent grand strategy.
• Anti-colonial narrative built post-hoc: Russia only developed its framing of the Ukraine war as anti-colonial months after invading, once "denazification" messaging failed to resonate with Global South audiences.

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