This Is How Moscow Sees The Ukraine Crisis Playing Out

Sergei Glazyev, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation on Regional Economic Integration (RIA Novosti / Grigoriy Sisoev)

This Is How Putin's Adviser Sees The Ukraine Crisis Playing Out -- Zero Hedge

Vladimir Putin's chief "integration" advisor, Sergei Glazyev, has been regularly featured on these pages in the past (see Putin Advisor Threatens With Dumping US Treasurys, Abandoning Dollar If US Proceeds With Sanctions and Putin Advisor Proposes "Anti-Dollar Alliance" To Halt US Aggression Abroad for two examples). So now that the Ukraine situation has once again escalated, this time with both sides openly engaged in trade war and many suggesting all-out war just over the horizon, how does Putin's advisor see the Ukraine conflict playing out?

For the answer we go to Bloomberg:

Putin has sought to lure Ukraine and its more than 40 million people into the alliance to build a trading bloc to rival the EU. Yanukovych pursued closer ties with the customs union and pulled out of an association agreement with the EU before his ouster in February. His successor, President Petro Poroshenko, signed the free-trade accord with the 28-nation bloc in June.


Russia can’t go it alone against the U.S. and must create an “anti-war coalition” to check the “aggressor,” Glazyev said.

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My Comment: Zero Hedge is Right .... de-escalaton is definitely not on their playbook .... they are looking at this conflict with a long term perspective.