It takes two to tango. How Moscow plays along with Erdogan

It takes two to tango. That's all you can say when you look at the continuation of Paludan's "performance", now in Copenhagen. Having received the desired backlash from official Ankara in the form of a refusal to negotiate further, Russian handlers of the Danish racist saw that the effort had worked perfectly. It was necessary to focus on the topic of Sweden's accession to NATO.

"The key problem is how to stop this without violating the rules of a free society. We have a typical dilemma in such cases, where both solutions are bad"

The key problem is how to stop this without violating the rules of a free society. We have a typical dilemma in such cases, where both solutions are bad. It is clear that if the addressee ignores these actions and qualifies them as a deliberate Russian provocation involving extreme right-wing politicians, the effect will be reduced to zero. But the timing is perfect. Erdogan needs an enemy because of internal problems, and he is being offered by Moscow on a silver platter.

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About the author. Ihor Semyvolos, political scientist, orientalist.

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