Pno one is on Vladimir Putin’s mind?
Without a doubt.
And no one knows, as I write, whether or not he will invade Ukraine.
But what we do know, however, is what its strategic objectives are.
And, if we know it, it is because he spends his time, like all authoritarian leaders in the world, saying it quite clearly.
1. Putin doesn’t like democracy. He has, since he came to power in March 2000, scarcely lacked opportunities to recall him. And, if he doesn’t love her at home, he doesn’t love her any more at her doors. So, the Kiev Maidan revolution? The taste for free and transparent elections? The will to fight against corruption, the law of post-Soviet societies? In short, the aspiration, on its steps, to an open society and to the…
illustration: dusault for “the point”
