What's going on inside Putin's mind? His own words give us a disturbing clue | Michel Eltchaninoff

“They have only one objective: to prevent the development of Russia. They are going to do it in the same way as they did it before, without furnishing even a single pretext, doing it just because we exist.” These were Vladimir Putin’s words on 21 February, in his now notorious speech on Ukraine. They repeat the argument already formulated in his speech on Crimea in March 2014: “The politics of the

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『プーチンの頭のなか』著者によるウクライナ侵攻を受けた寄稿。21日の演説の参照先にレフ・グミリョフとイヴァン・イリインを挙げて、彼が数十年間あたためてきた世界観は「パラノイアックだが一貫している」と。