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Puton's Miscalculation
When i was ambassador, that was eight years ago, already we were writing lots of cable back to washington, saying, puton is out of touch. You know, in meetings that i would attend, when he would meet with obama or byden or secretary cary, it was clear he didn't listen to his advisers at all. And then i would say one other thing, a historical thing. It reminds me of bregnef in this sense that this is his fifth war. The last four he won. He just recently gave alexey nevalni, the leading opposition figure, nine more years,. Ye, he said the thing that drove him nuts was when