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Olivia Gazis is well sourced.
cc: @ChinaAmbUN @IndiaUNNewYork
Does #China and #India really want to cast their fate with Putin? Does the Russian military?
Olivia Gazis is well sourced.
cc: @ChinaAmbUN @IndiaUNNewYork
Does #China and #India really want to cast their fate with Putin? Does the Russian military?
https://twitter.com/olivia_gazis/status/1497408036918513668
2. “Russia experts and former U.S. officials increasingly question Putin’s stability.”
via @wrightr
newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
via @wrightr
newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
3. @SSestanovich:
“Did he think forcing all of his advisers to stand up on television and say, in such obvious discomfort, that they agreed with him would make the decision for war look careful and deliberate?My Russian friends suggest something different—is this guy losing it?”
“Did he think forcing all of his advisers to stand up on television and say, in such obvious discomfort, that they agreed with him would make the decision for war look careful and deliberate?My Russian friends suggest something different—is this guy losing it?”
4. Professor @ninakhrushcheva:
Putin appears to “have lost all grip on reality, more so than I was willing to admit only yesterday.”
She described Putin as a “ruthless megalomaniac.”
newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
Putin appears to “have lost all grip on reality, more so than I was willing to admit only yesterday.”
She described Putin as a “ruthless megalomaniac.”
newyorker.com/news/daily-com…
5. Professor Lawrence Freedman (@LawDavF):
"Putin has become obsessed with Ukraine, and prone to outrageous theories which appear as pretexts for war but which may also reflect his views."
"Putin reminds us that that autocracy can lead to great errors."
samf.substack.com/p/a-reckless-g…
"Putin has become obsessed with Ukraine, and prone to outrageous theories which appear as pretexts for war but which may also reflect his views."
"Putin reminds us that that autocracy can lead to great errors."
samf.substack.com/p/a-reckless-g…
6. Former MI6 chief @siralexyounger:
"Putin has gone through the looking glass."
"I think he has changed."
"He is isolated, badly advised and in a state of a sort of messianic certainty, dangerously combined with a high degree of frustration."
reuters.com/world/china/br…
"Putin has gone through the looking glass."
"I think he has changed."
"He is isolated, badly advised and in a state of a sort of messianic certainty, dangerously combined with a high degree of frustration."
reuters.com/world/china/br…
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