Seen from the perspective of his reckless gamble in Ukraine, a picture emerges of a man who seized on almost every move by the West as a slight against Russia - and perhaps also himself. Putin is an enigma, but he is also the most public of figures.
and its allies, through excess of optimism or naiveté, simply get Putin wrong from the outset? Or was he transformed over time into the revanchist warmonger of today? fought and lost its forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as technology networked the world, a Russian enigma took form in the Kremlin.ĭid the U.S. Petersburg youth.īetween these voices of reason and incitation, between these two seemingly different men, lie 22 years of power and five United States presidents. This was less the language of Kant than of fascist nationalist exaltation laced with Putin’s hardscrabble, brawling St. True Russians, he said, would “spit them out like a gnat that accidentally flew into their mouths” and so achieve “a necessary self-purification of society.” His opponents will meet an ugly fate, Putin vowed this month, grimacing as his planned blitzkrieg in Ukraine stalled. More than 3.7 million Ukrainians are refugees the dead mount up in a month-old war and that purring voice of Putin has morphed into the angry rant of a hunched man dismissing as “scum and traitors” any Russian who resists the violence of his tightening dictatorship. Today, all togetherness shredded, Ukraine burns, bludgeoned by the invading army Putin sent to prove his conviction that Ukrainian nationhood is a myth. 🗞️ Subscribe Now: Get Express Premium to access the best Election reporting and analysis 🗞️ We had some reason to think there was a viable perspective of togetherness.” “The voice was quite soft, in German, a voice that tempts you to believe what is said to you. Norbert Röttgen, a center-right representative who headed the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee for several years, was among those who rose to their feet.
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