The World in 2035: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

... allow it to claim global leadership? How could these benefits be “operationalized”? If we are talking about Russia in 2035, we can assume that by this time the ongoing conflict in Ukraine is already over and that some kind of accommodation with the West is already achieved. Such accommodation will be staged and partial; the odds are that even in 2035 some of the US and EU sanctions imposed on Moscow in 2022–2024 will still be in place. It is unlikely that the pre-2022 pattern of Russia-West relations can be restored in full even in eleven years from now. Russia’s pivot to Asia is going to ...