To understand the evolution of Swiss neutrality, it is necessary to differentiate between three dimensions of what it means to be neutral in contemporary Swiss history.
Ukraine’s integration into the West is unacceptable to the Kremlin on security grounds, it is also inadmissible for what Putin would consider ‘civilizational’ reasons.
In a Clausewitzian sense, Putin has successfully used Russian force to impose Russia’s will on Ukraine.
The Quad is not constrained by India’s neutral stance on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but rather by its reluctance to stand up to China.
For decades, German policy towards Putin’s Russia was beset by dangerous delusions based on a rather selective grasp of which lessons to draw from Germany’s own history.
The Budapest Memorandum worked in the short-term by de-nuclearizing a former Soviet state, but proved worthless in deterring Russian aggression.
For the authorities in Kyiv, wartime shortages and near starvation in cities like Mariupol recall the dark past of the Holodomor.
Vera Michlin-Shapir talks about Russian foreign and domestic policy, including the war against Ukraine and media freedom, as well as Israeli foreign policy.
The attempt to employ whataboutisms in defence of Russia by citing intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya exposes the shallowness of such argumentation.
The CAR has become highly reliant on Russian military for its security, and this dependency may grow into a wider issue the longer the conflict in Ukraine continues.
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