If Russia gains the upper hand in the Ukraine war, this could have negative consequences for other regions. Because Putin’s foreign policy currently only has one principle.
Russia is cooperating more and more with countries like Iran. © ZUMA/imago images
Hanna Notte directs the Eurasia Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
After its attack on Ukraine, Russia has become a state that subordinates its foreign policy to a single theme: confrontation with the West. Russia is hindering multilateral diplomacy, buying weapons from pariah states like Iran and North Korea and torpedoing mutual arms control. Russia is doing all of this because it is fighting with the West not only for the future of Ukraine, but ultimately for the future of the international order.