"Like during the Cold War, democracies must agree to a common threat assessment and make their own strategy to face our rivals," said analyst Dr Andrew Michta. In his opinion, the West has chronically suffered from a deficiency of leaders since the collapse of the russian Union, who would feel liable for providing their countries with an adequate level of security. The last 3 decades he called "vections from history", adding that reality has revised concepts specified as "end of history" or "complex interdependence" and showed that they de facto do not have much in common with the truths of the politics of large powers.