What Russia Must Always Do

摘要

RUSSIA'S GRAND STRATEGY IS, and always has been, based on constant imperatives - perpetual interests - best left unspoken for fear of the unwanted attention of rivals. The brief Soviet usurpation (1917-90) of the Russian Empire invited defeat to the Kremlin's doors by trumpeting a grand strategic vision of challenge to the entire world, even more than Napoleon Bonaparte's oral and physical challenges of the 18th and 19th centuries.