Whatever you read, watch or listen to you’ll find endless debates over the same question: What does Vladimir Putin want? He’s massing troops on Ukraine’s border, making demands of Europe and America and issuing threats of all-out war. But what does he really want?
It’s the important question, but to answer it we must answer another question. It involves his calculations of what he can achieve and at what price, and goes like this: What does Putin see?
Weakness, that’s what he sees. Wherever he looks in the West, he sees feckless leaders who have a slippery hold on power and can’t even run their own countries, let alone marshal a united front against Mother Russia..........
