Piontkovsky on Putin and Erdogan’s clash in the Caucasus.
This is not Merkel’s “Putin verstehen”, Macron’s “we need a dialogue with Putin”, Trump’s “Putin thinks me a great politician”. In Transcaucasia Putin has for the first time met with an opponent much
This is not Merkel’s “Putin verstehen”, Macron’s “we need a dialogue with Putin”, Trump’s “Putin thinks me a great politician”. In Transcaucasia Putin has for the first time met with an opponent much
more dangerous than Merkel, Trump, Macron and so on, Erdogan has no desire for “Putin verstehen”, nicht verstehen!. Erdogan only wants to put Putin in his place, once and for all, and show who is the master in the Caucasus. And this is only a tiny model exercise for Russia’s
leadership. Because if tomorrow, and even if, they are only not using full voice, there appears not Erdogan but Comrade Xi? What will then happen to Putin? Putin has been spoilt by all those Macrons, Merkels, Trumps, Obamas, Kerrys, by their complete indecisiveness. It’s not even
weakness, at least the Americans have more than enough power, it is a weakness of spirit, it’s exactly the same as dealings between Hitler and the West in the 1930s, but here he clashed with the same kind of mini Hitler as himself and he is not to meeting with these kind
of personalities. I think we should be more concerned not with the fate of the Putin regime but with the fate of the Armenian people, which Putin’s policies have put in this complex situation.
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