Debates on Dynamite

... leadership took this into account at the very start of the special military operation and had no intention of falling into the “Clausewitz trap.” This is evident, for example, in the exchange between President Vladimir Putin and Sergei Karaganov—the international relations scholar who initiated the debate on nuclear deterrence—at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in June 2024. At that time, the Russian leader remarked : “When we see what the Russian character is—what the character of a Russian citizen truly is—when we understand it ...