The Lessons of the Totalitarian Powers

The West read its own liberal reflexes into what the Chinese were doing. They would say, well, they won't want to do something like Tiananmen Square again. But it should have been a clear signal that they were likely to harden down. Putin's art of war is a mixture of terror and deceitful diplomacy. The way he wages war is terroristic. It's not wars we normally understand of battlefields... He goes after civilian populations.