United States president Barack Obama’s intelligence services have told him that Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, when talking to his cronies, refers to the American president using vile racial insults. David Cameron, the United Kingdom’s prime minister, can barely manage to shake the Russian leader’s hand, now that his spies have told him details of Putin’s private life. Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, knows perhaps better than any other Western leader that her Russian counterpart is a brute, a crook and a liar.
Yet Western leaders are still deluding themselves about how to deal with Russia. The most interesting and depressing news of …read more
Source: European Voice
