Germany’s
Angela Merkel
described
Russian President Vladimir Putin, after a phone conversation, as “living in
another world.” Like Merkel, we, who write on
Russia’s
War on
Ukraine,
have all had our rude introduction to Putin’s “other world.” In his parallel
universe, the aggressor is the victim, strangers appoint themselves “premiers” of
non-existent “republics,” hundreds of soldiers mysteriously perish in border
exercises or “on vacation,” a certified nationally elected government is a
“neo-Nazi junta,” and hundreds of tanks and heavy weapons crossing borders are
optical illusions.
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