The Dangerous Illusion of Anchorage

Talks that weakened Russia

It wasn’t Anchorage itself that was the mistake, but the talk about it. It:

• demoralized the patriotic core inside Russia itself,

• gave false hopes to the internal defeatists, which saw it as a green light to sabotage Victory, and

• created in the West the illusion that Russia is simply incapable of playing a symmetric escalation game. This meant that the West…