Calculator, endowed with great strategic intelligence but cut off from reality, immersed in the personality of Vladimir Putin.
The risk of conflict and war in the context of the Ukrainian crisis is very real today. But this escalation of tensions is largely due to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Today, all the options are still on the table but we have to be clear, it was Putin who created the crisis”, stresses Sven Biscop, professor at the Royal Egmont Institute and at the University of Ghent. “He put his demands on the table and insisted on having his demands urgently otherwise military-technical measures would be put in place, he said. It must be remembered that it was he who caused the crisis and this emergency situation. But who is Putin really and what is his personality? To understand the aura and the harshness of the man who is often described as a “cold-blooded political animal” by political observers, it is necessary above all to take a leap into the past.
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