With the decision to go to war against “brotherly” Ukraine, the Russian president is confirming his increasingly ruthless policy. This is also due to the lack of perspective of the power system he created.
For President Putin, Russia’s future depends on his personal retention of power. That’s why everything is subordinate to this goal – here in the 2011 election campaign together with his confidant Dimitri Medvedev.
Rarely has Vladimir Putin appeared so hateful, obsessed and enraged as in the past week. Everything rational, everything pragmatic and tactically clever, which had fascinated its admirers for years and even commanded a certain respect from its critics, seemed to have been wiped away before the Security Council and twice in television speeches. Even serious commentators questioned Putin’s sanity.