Vladimir Putin

Recomendo a leitura de artigo intitulado: “Boundary Issues ,what Putin is doing in Georgia” do grande jornalista, laureado com Prêmio Pulitzer em 1994, David Remnick.O texto está na edição de hoje do New Yorker.
Remnick faz uma análise brilhante da atuação e das limitações de Putin e conclui: “But Putin is not Hitler or Stalin; he is not even Leonid Brezhnev. He is what he is, and that is bad enough…But Putin knows that Russia cannot bear the cost of reconstituting empire or the gulag. It depends on the West as a market. One lesson of the Soviet experience is that isolation ends in poverty. Putin’s is a new and subtler game: he is the autocrat who calls on the widow of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. To deal with him will require statecraft of a kind that has proved well beyond the capacities of our current practitioners”.