
216 | Ian Morris: How Russia's Grand Strategy Drives the War in Ukraine
The Realignment
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Insurgency
Thjusof: You can engage in competition and conflict with he great power without its ever actually turning into a war which you're confident you can lose. Insurgencies are one way to do this, but they don't work for vladimir putin m ad you can't wage insurgency against the states because it's just not that situation. So what we do is we start all these stories about how all these ethnic russians in crimea are agitating to come back to russia. And now ths all these guys reany man with guns shooting everybody. But they're not russian soldiers, even if they're in the russian army. Thy're just guys
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