Amid the Ukraine crisis, looking again at Putin, the one-man show the West doesn’t understand
The stakes for having an accurate understanding of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, have never been higher. A misreading could have catastrophic consequences. Here’s what other foreign leaders need to understand about who Putin is, what he wants, how he thinks, where his ideas come from, and why he annexed Crimea in 2014 and intervened in Syria in 2015.