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This publication contends that the Kremlin’s increasingly assertive foreign policy is a mere extension of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s worldview. Further, this worldview is rooted in more than two decades of compounded dissatisfaction with the West, as well as Putin’s cumulative experiences in his ongoing global campaigns to preserve his regime, end US hegemony and reinstate Russia as a global power. The text’s author also maintains that contrary to perspectives held in Washington, Putin’s brief period of non-assertive foreign policy was an anomaly. In a similar way to Russia’s historic foreign policy, Putin’s foreign policy has always been assertive.