Putin and the Color Revolution in the Balkans

CNN's John Defterios says there is a false pattern matching and equivalence to everything you just said. What I focus on in the book is how starting in Serbia, where people may remember there was a bloody series of wars that the then-surbian leader Slopodom Losevic instigated. And at some point he was overthrown by a student led popular uprising. That fear has animated Putin since this all happened in 2000. It's the thing that when you think about what Putin cares about most is staying in power.