Vlad reunites with his sidekick
NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images Autocrats rejoice! The nasty spat between Russia and Belarus—so disheartening to those longing for a Soviet revival—has been patched up. Belarus gets cheap gas, and Russia gets support against American missile defense. (Still, revanchists didn’t get everything they wanted: there had been speculation that Putin would announce a Russia-Belarus “union state”, with ...
NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP/Getty Images
Autocrats rejoice! The nasty spat between Russia and Belarus—so disheartening to those longing for a Soviet revival—has been patched up. Belarus gets cheap gas, and Russia gets support against American missile defense. (Still, revanchists didn’t get everything they wanted: there had been speculation that Putin would announce a Russia-Belarus “union state”, with Putin as its president.)
David Bosco is a professor at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies. He is the author of The Poseidon Project: The Struggle to Govern the World’s Oceans. Twitter: @multilateralist
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