How Moscow Plans To Bypass Everyone

Building bridges, breaking barriers

Putin meets with Khamenei (in the middle) and Raisi (to the right), the supreme leader and president of Iran, respectively. [photo by Mehr News Agency]

The Kremlin is cooking up new ways for regime survival. Military victory in the Ukraine quagmire is ever more elusive. So Russia is in a desperate search for ways around it.

Putin’s solution is commerce. Europe accounted for more than a third of Russian trade before 2022. This position needs to be filled. And what…