On Aug. 24, former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s granddaughter Nina, a formidable Kremlinologist in her own right, tweeted: “if you think that Putin won’t start a war in order to stay in the Kremlin, don’t. He can, he will.”
He has.
While the Sept. 28 Munk debate was demonstrating that all politics is indeed local, Vladimir Putin began proving it aggressively on the ground in Syria. For a week before, there had been rumours that Russia would undertake something “spectacular” there immediately on the heels of Putin’s UN speech. He did; airstrikes and a Syrian ground offensive against Syrian rebel targets, not …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
