Putin’s biggest mistake of the Ukraine war? Trusting the Western financial system
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The West is arraying financial weapons never deployed before against a country of Russia’s size, forsaking some of the principles that have defined it.
Part of what has defined the West – and most of what has been the world’s engine of prosperity for the past century and a half – has been the free flow of goods across...