Russia watchers always get asked this question, what does puton want? It's a sort of almost aclicie at this point. He has cloaked himself in the garb of his more illustrious predecessors and assumed all those kind of ideas and titles for himself. But i think there's something else sene that may be going on as well. And we're all pretty much confined in these old zoom boxes that we've been in all the time. We're all got kind of stir crazy and cabin fever. The coverd pandemic is messed with everyone's minds here,. You kno.
Foreign policy and national security expert Fiona Hill is a go-to voice in Washington for understanding the longstanding tensions between the US and Russia. Her latest book, There Is Nothing For You Here, is part memoir, part reflection on how factors ranging from deindustrialisation to disenfranchisement over the course of decades have left a swathe of voters in nations such as the US, UK and Russia, open to populist policies and strongman leaders.
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