Vladimir Putin at his end-of-the-year news conference in Moscow. Maxim Smeyev / Reuters
Jeffrey Taylor, The Atlantic: The World According to Russia
A documentary on state television gives a glimpse of Vladimir Putin’s philosophy.
“Do you realize what you have done?” Vladimir Putin demanded at the United Nations in September. The question was a rebuke to the American-led bloc of countries that initially viewed with optimism the Arab Spring, which began five years ago this month, but has since given way to chaos and Islamist violence across once-stable parts of the Middle East and North Africa. Those events, and much else, look different when viewed from Russia than they do from the United States, and a documentary that aired recently on Russian state television helps explain the worldview behind Putin’s question.
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Obviously the US has not realized what it has done. It believes it is bringing peace to Syria, for one thing, confusing the illegal attempts to overthrow a government with bringing peace. So asking the question, as Putin has, is to answer it.
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