Opinion: A “smart” person — by which I mean someone who had read the right news sources, studied the right books and consulted the right experts — would have believed a number of things about Russia and Ukraine back on Feb. 23.
A “smart” person — by which I mean someone who had read the right news sources, studied the right books and consulted the right experts — would have believed a number of things about Russia and Ukraine back on Feb. 23.
They seemed to have misplaced it for quite some time. For the past decade or more, the talk has been of democratic decline. Autocrats and authoritarians from China to Brazil to Russia had the wind in their sails; populists and extremists in democratic countries were on the march. The democracies themselves seemed to have forgotten how to co-operate against their common foes.
Putin is truly the author of his own downfall: “His every move accelerated and precipitated the very thing he feared the most.”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went to the U.S. Congress This is all calculated, of course. Zelenskyy is a former comedian and actor, and knows well the power of presentation. But such things are effective only to the extent that they represent something genuine. And in Zelenskyy’s case, the genuineness factor is very high.
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