Russia’s long road to nowhere

Russian President Vladimir Putin's narrative aims to misrepresent Russia’s naked aggression as a heroic stand against the West and to deflect from Russia’s military failures and rally the Russian people to support Putin’s war. This cynically manipulative narrative recasts the aggressor as the victim.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's narrative aims to misrepresent his naked aggression as a heroic stand against the West, to deflect from Russia’s military failures and to rally the Russian people to support his war, writes Toomas Lukk.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY ESTONIAN AMBASSADOR TO CANADA TOOMAS LUKK

May 30, 2022

Russia’s expansionism, imperialism, and chauvinism have degraded the country into a pariah state, exposing its deeply-rooted inferiority complex. In 1990, at the end of the Cold War, the Scorpions released a song titled Wind of Change foretelling that “distant memories are buried in th...

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