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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s plans to “restore” the republics that were under the auspices of the former Soviet Union have failed, according to a new article posted on “The Hill” website that sheds light on the problems he currently faces. Moscow in its regional environment.
The article’s author, Paul Roderick Gregory, a professor of economics at the University of Houston, said Putin’s vision “fades with the spread of popular unrest and armed conflict in the territories of the former Soviet Union that he had planned to restore.”
And this happened after his project faced “huge setbacks and devastating blows”, beginning with Georgia’s exit from the “Russian orbit” in 2008, through the poisoning of its relationship with Ukraine, and the departure of Belarusian citizens to the streets to announce his refusal, his ally, Alexander Lukashenko, then the removal of the pro-Moscow government in Kyrgyzstan, AND the return of the bloody conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
In the midst of this, Moscow, already suffering economic crises, must calm things down in the explosive arena of the Caucasus, according to the writer.
Moscow reached a ceasefire agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but it did not last just a few hours before the mutual bombardment resumed.
The researcher says Putin “earned a reputation as a skilled foreign policy engineer capable of turning a bunch of unprofitable cards into winning hands, but recent events cast doubt on that assessment.”
“A foreign policy genius like Putin can tolerate accidental setbacks, but he has suffered a series of setbacks, including failure to poison his political rival, Alexei Navalny,” he says.
The writer says: “Soon, people may begin to wonder: if the former Soviet intelligence chief was unable to carry out a relatively simple poisoning operation, how could he bring peace to a centuries-old regional conflict and solve other crises? too?”
