Why There's No Placating Putin
Leon Aron, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has written a welcome, concise book that follows Vladimir Putin from his youth in hardscrabble Leningrad to his unlikely rise to power, aided along the way by apartment bombings and mangled terror attacks, his tightening the screws on opposition figures, unprovoked invasions, to the present when even mild forms of protest could mean prison. Although influenced by the extreme nationalism of Alexander Dugin and the propensity toward violence of his alter ego Nikolai Patrushev, Aron's "house that Putin Built" was cons...
Source: freebeacon.com
