It is not just the macroeconomic health of the European Union that is at stake in the European Union’s failure to find a way to reflate and rebalance its economies. The political destiny of what Muscovy calls its “near abroad”–what happens in those former union republics of the Soviet Union with capitals different from Moscow–hinges … Continue reading Afternoon Must-Read: Yuriy Gorodnichenko , Gérard Roland and Edward W. Walker: Putin’s European Fifth Column