(1) He fails to read Putin's colonial attitude toward Ukraine, and is way too eager to accept the regime's stated NATO encroachment position at face value (rath

(1) He fails to read Putin's colonial attitude toward Ukraine, and is way too eager to accept the regime's stated NATO encroachment position at face value (rather than for the foil that it is). (2) Dualism -- he's obsessed with the idea that the US has one real enemy, China, and that therefore Russia should be its friend, no matter what it does. But mostly because he makes a lot of distorted (and in my view digingenuous) statements (or omits things he should be saying) about basic events. Basically, he's just really slippery.