Paul Goble: Putin’s unrealizable dream vs. his all too-real nightmare
A Russian flag flies in the courtyard of the parliament building in Simferopol, Crimea, on March 18, 2014, while workers dismantled the inscription reading \"The Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea\" in Crimean Tatar language.
That Vladimir Putin lives in a different reality than do other world leaders is now more or less common ground. Now, two commentators have described respectively what the Kremlin leader dreams about and what his worst nightmare might turn out to be.
