The Russian president’s diatribe against Turkey cannot conceal his foreign policy failuresPresident Vladimir Putin devoted most of his state of the nation address on Thursday to pledging that Turkey would long regret the recent shooting down of a Russian warplane on the Syrian-Turkish border, and to charges that Turkey was selling on oil from Isis. This would not just be a case of a ban on Turkish tomatoes, he thundered, but of far more serious consequences into the far future. It was a curious performance from a leader who, with his annexation of Crimea, his incursions into Ukraine, and his …read more
Source: The Guardian
