How To Deal With The Unappeasable Putin

Walter Russell Mead: “The best way to think about Mr. Putin is as a gifted tac­ti­cian com­mit­ted to a strate­gic im­pos­si­bil­ity: for Rus­sia to re­gain the su­per­power sta­tus once held by the So­viet Union. Such lead­ers are un­ap­peasable be­cause their goals can never be reached. The rise of China, Rus­sia’s con­tin­u­ing de­mo­graphic de­cline, and its con­tin­u­ing in­abil­ity to cre­ate a mod­ern and dy­namic econ­omy will not end be­cause Russ­ian flags fly over the ru­ins of Kyiv.” “There are two mistakes we can make about figures like Mr.

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