Russia’s New Cold War Against The West

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with senior military officers in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 23, 2017.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with senior military officers in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 23, 2017. Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP / Alexei Druzhinin
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with senior military officers in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 23, 2017.
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting with senior military officers in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 23, 2017. Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP / Alexei Druzhinin

Russia’s New Cold War Against The West

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In a new article in Slate, New America fellow Yascha Mounk has a short list of things Russia has done in recent months to de-legitimize basic Western democratic institutions. Among them, supporting a far-right populist movement in France, blackmailing Canada’s new liberal foreign minister with her grandparents and bribing Syrian refugees in Stockholm to riot.

It’s all part of what Mounk calls Russia’s intense new Cold War against the West. He believes that the West should respond in kind, and joins Worldview to discuss recent developments with Russia.