The Drama of Vladimir Putin

In the 90s and then his first two terms, he's a lot more understated. He isn't brashly bossing people around like that famous meeting in February of last year with his kind of national security council chiefs. And he's gotten nastier, isn't he? Yeah. More imperious and nastier. But I think a lot of that is play acting. Right. It's an all theory about playing the crazy guy. Exactly. So long as it serves its purpose, it doesn't matter if we see through it eventually. Once again, you saw him and his defence minister sitting side by side chatting. You don't know what I'm going to