Russian President Putin believes his country is at war with America and Europe on Ukrainian soil
Former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky says Russian President Putin thinks Nato is 'weak'. Picture: BLOOMBERG
Western arguments drawing a hard line between conflict on Ukrainian land and the spread of war into Nato members’ territory are a nuance that means little to Putin, said Khodorkovsky, whose falling out with the Russian leader in the early 2000s led to him spending nearly a decade in prison before going into exile.
With the war now in its second month, Khodorkovsky said he thinks the US needs to show Putin “a consistent policy of force,” noting that economic sanctions alone don’t scare him. And he added that despite Western hopes, he doesn’t believe sanctioning current Russian billionaires will have much affect on Putin’s thinking about how to proceed in Ukraine.
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