Russia and Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin: Here are four conclusions I have drawn from all of the huffing and puffing:, according to The Star. Russia is not the Soviet Union. In terms of empire, economics and military power, the ambitions of Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, far exceed their ability to deliver on them. He oversees an endemically corrupt and demoralized nation, with a stagnant economy and weakened military. And Putin surely knows this, even though many of his political critics in the West apparently dont and This crisis over Ukraine is unfolding inside at least two parallel universes where fact and fiction seem to reside interchangeably, and where global hypocrisy rules the day. What should we make of it all? No. 1: Russias unlawful actions have flowed from its weakness, not its strength. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.