A Kremlin guard opens a door for Russian President Vladimir Putin as he enters a meeting in October. ReutersThe thing about Vladimir Putin is, it really doesn’t matter what he says. When the Russian president took to the tribune at the UN General Assembly earlier this week, he did so amid rampant expectations that he would say something extraordinary—something capable of either ending his standoff with the West, or else sending it to new heights. In the end, he did neither. He said what he’s said countless times before: that the West is full of itself and hypocritical, that the …read more
Source: The Atlantic
