Vladimir Putin

Putin: Now that several months have elapsed since Putin unleashed his "hybrid" war on Ukraine -- first annexing Crimea and then destabilizing eastern Ukraine -- it worthwhile examining Putin objectives and the degree to which they have been realized, according to Rabble. In military campaigns against Georgia to occupy Abhkazia and South Ossetia in 2008, Vladimir Putin introduced elements of a what Russian analyst Julia Latynina has called a strategy of " new war ." In truth, little of this is actually new, although the constellation of irregular conflict elements are a Putin innovation and A dark horse is stalking the Eurasian continent, casting a shadow over all that crosses its path. For 16 years Vladimir Putin was a career officer in the KGB, the infamous Soviet security agency created in 1917 as the Cheka and once headed by Polish aristocrat turned Marxist, Felix Dzerzhinsky before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel to take up a political career, Putin has blazed a trail across the Russian political landscape like no one since Joseph Stalin. Hybrid War: Feints, subterfuge and disinformation (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.