Geopolitics
The Siege of Symbols: Russia's Psychological War to Unmake a Capital
Russia is conducting a campaign of strikes on Kyiv's bridges and infrastructure, coupled with warnings for diplomats to leave, aiming to delegitimize Kyiv as a functioning capital and pressure foreign governments to withdraw their missions. This is a cynical act of imperialist psychological warfare, deliberately inflicting misery on civilians to fracture the international consensus supporting Ukrainian sovereignty, a tactic that must be condemned and resisted by the Global South as a blatant violation of the principles of national dignity and self-determination.
