Two books cover the Russia-Ukraine war from opposite perspectives
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Vladimir Putin's Miscalculations
In 1975, he enters the KGB. He's posted to East Germany at the time of backwater. Those years have been much documented because people are so curious about how that may have influenced who Vladimir Putin became. Let me bring us up to today. And Putin's war in Ukraine, a war that even he seemed to be signs that he grasped that it is not going entirely to plan. How do you explain his miscalculation there? Part of it has to do with the fact that Putin probably had the worst work from home experience of any foreign leader.
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