The Great Game. 04.03.2021
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The US Secretary of State has made a historic announcement: America gives up its policy of promoting democracy and seeking regime change because these efforts mostly backfire and produce the opposite result. Does the White House really think that its foreign policy is a failure? Or is it no more than a shift in rhetoric? The new administration has taken its first hostile action with respect to Russia: for the first time in the past 20 years, the US and the EU have imposed coordinated sanctions on Russia. How can Russia respond? And is a tough response in order?
Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, Joe Biden urged the allies to close ranks and reminded them of the adversaries China and, naturally, Russia. What does the US leader really mean when he talks about the need to «meet the threat from Russia”? And will the European leaders respond to his call?
Sergey Lavrov warns Russia may break ties with the EU and at the same time says it is open for cooperation. What does it all mean? Who in Europe and across the Atlantic forces Brussels to play against Moscow?
Who makes the tectonic rift between the East and the West even bigger and why? How deep is the Mariana Trench where the entire system of international relations is about to perish? Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova is our special guest tonight.
2020 in review: the year that split history into two halves before and after the pandemic. The Great Game has changed. What does Vladimir Putin think about 2020? What did it mean for Russia? And what should we expect from 2021?