Putin's Obsessions on Ukraine

 

 

Dear Sirs,

I understand all the arguments put forward by Mary Dejevsky in "Another View" (22.10.21) about Russia feeling defensive over encirclement after being invaded so often historically from Europe and seeing the more democratic Gorbachov/Yeltsin era as something equivalent to the XVII century Time of Troubles when Russia imploded and Poles occupied the Kremlin. However, that defensiveness does not excuse Putin's obsessive power paranoia with which he alarms his own people, by clamping down on democracy, occupying Crimea, waging war in Ukraine, encouraging Assad to gas his own countrymen, executing spies in England, and conducting a ceaseless aggressive war in cyberspace against Western countries.

So who exactly is "grievously misleading Russia for 20 years"?

Yours faithfully,

Wiktor Moszczynski

Letter sent to Editor of i 22nd October 2021