Putin's Foreign Office

Our understanding is that at the time, foreign office officials and uke's defence attache in moscow were increasingly inalarm rells about the government of president pewtin. And they were giving advice that it was almost futile to try and repair relations with his regime. Any attempt of plomacy was all about legitimizing things that russia had done with impunity over the ears. So the charm offensive wouldn't bring them on board, but might just make it look like they'd behaved perfectly reasonably. Yes, exactly. Vim of the qi calculus for putin was that his aggressive foreign policy played very well to his domestic audience within russia. He was seeking to continue