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Vladimir Pozner: How the United States Created Vladimir Putin (2018 – Yale Univ)
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoI agree with the headline, but not the content. Letting oligarchs run the show rather than encourage some Western European social democracy seems like the key mistake. I still don't understand why a defensive agreement annoys Putin so much. It reminds of the Always Sunny in Philadelphia bit where he wants to take women far out to sea on a yacht to pressure them into sex. https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1636176/quotes/?ref_=tt_trv_qu https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1636176/quotes/?ref_=tt_trv_qu He's not going to hurt them, just use the implication that he might hurt them to take advantage of them.