Opinion

How Did We Get Putin So Wrong?

THE CZAR HAS NO CLOTHES

The world assumed the Russian leader was a cunning and formidable adversary. Then he launched a disastrous war that has devastated his own country.

David Rothkopf
David Rothkopf
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