A Eurasian crisis is being driven not by Moscow or Beijing, but by nervous allies of the US

By Timofey Bordachev , Program Director of the Valdai Club

Western Europe and Japan sit on opposite ends of the Eurasian landmass, products of different histories and cultures. Yet in foreign policy they behave like twins. In both cases, national decisions are shaped less by domestic strategy than by Washington’s mood swings. When the United States is confident, they are calm. When Washington is uneasy, they panic.

We are now watching that panic spill into open aggression. Across what is normally a quieter stretch of the planet, Western Europe and Japan…

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