Chicago – Russian President Vladimir Putin is determined to destabilize Western democracies in an effort to shape global events to his own interests, says a former Ukrainian finance minister who has seen firsthand Russian machinations overwhelm her country.
“This is about the Kremlin wanting to destroy what we’ll call the ‘liberal post-World War II international order,’ which is based on democracy, human rights, territorial integrity, sovereignty of nations,” Natalie Jaresko told David Axelrod on “The Axe Files,” a podcast from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN.
