Historians of international relations will remember the attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022 as the most counterproductive strategic decision in Russian history.
First, by resorting to violence, Russia destroyed forever the immense influence it retained over the population of its Ukrainian neighbor, who shared for the most part its language, its religion, its culture.
Then, it cut itself off, economically and politically, from Western Europe which, however, had irrigated it with its technology since Peter the Great and which had, for a quarter of a century, built a close energy partnership with it.
No one finds any relevance in the Paris-Berlin-Moscow axis, which Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schröder dreamed of in 2003, after the American invasion of Iraq.
Finally, it consolidated the transatlantic bond, even as its official strategy aimed to institute a “multipolar” world, where its influence was supposed to compete with that of the United States…
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