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Thursday, May 8, 2014

Putin: Assessing His Adversaries

Go Big, Get Crazy (Thomas Friedman) from the New York Times
"Putin thinks he knows his adversaries better than they know themselves. He thinks the Americans will never be serious about energy, that the Europeans will never be serious about sanctions, that the Ukrainian reformers will never be serious about governance, and that he can control the separatist forces he’s unleashed in eastern Ukraine and dial them up or down as he pleases. The outcome of the Ukraine crisis rides primarily on whether he is right about all this. How’s his bet going so far?"

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