Today the Wall Street Journal posted an opinion column from Walter Russell Mead titled “How to Deal with the Unappeasable Putin”.
Walter Russell Mead starts his column with the following statement: “The Russian leader, like Mussolini, lacks the military and economy of a great power—and has an impossible political goal.”
And after that, the WSJ columnist questions us: “Is Mr. Putin a political genius we underestimate at our peril, or is he an overrated buffoon who, intoxicated by a long run of good luck, has fatally misjudged his prospects in Ukraine?”
Personally, I think that we can answer Walter Russell Mead with a simple analysis.
Political genius or buffoon, Mr. Putin is a man without compassion for innocent civilians like children, women and elders. Somebody who enjoys producing massacres like the Syrian war or the bombing of a women's hospital, definitively is not a man trustworthy to deal. The Russian leader only understands the language of weapons.
SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal, my own think tank
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