Transatlantic TakePhoto: REUTERS/Vasily Fedosenko
WASHINGTON—On February 15, EU foreign ministers agreed to remove the sanctions first imposed in 2004 on Belarus’s President Alexander Lukashenko and other Belarusian officials and companies, following the temporary lifting of EU and U.S. sanctions last October. This is only a small part of a bigger picture of the winners and losers of the West’s conflict with Russia. The big winner, at least in the short term, is illiberalism.
First, there is Syria’s Bashar al-Assad. Putin’s escapade in Syria has at least temporarily boosted his position in the country’s civil war.
Second, there is China, which since the onset …read more
The Winners from Russia-West Conflict
