Ex-KGB VIP and supreme ruler of Russia Vladimir Putin—let’s call him Volodya—is always scheming. He channels Machiavelli but only serves his sociopathic self as prince. He had managed to annex a large part of the Ukraine with negligible reaction from the West; he’s biding his time on the old “socialist republics” of the U.S.S.R. he believes to belong under Moscow rule too, but they have to be nervous after Ukraine; and he is doing Assad’s dirty work in order to maintain influence in the Arab...
Published on August 23, 2016 04:00