Projecting strength
by digby
This review of the book “The New Tsar” about Vladimir Putin sounds fascinating:
Rather than a unified theory of Putin, what Myers offers is the portrait of a man swinging from crisis to crisis with one goal: projecting strength.
Here’s a translation of some of his speeches:
“We’re gonna have so many victories … at some point it’s gonna be coming out of your ears. We’re gonna make our military so big and so strong and so great, and it will be so powerful that I don’t think we’re ever going to have to use it. Nobody’s gonna mess with us. There’s nobody bigger or better at the military than I am.”
Oh sorry that was Trump. My mistake.