What if we’re wrong about Vladimir Putin? To read the U.S. coverage these days about the Russian president, you’d think he’s 10 feet tall, a puppetmaster who merely has to yank the strings of his hacker army in the Kremlin to make democracy-loving Americans quake over their iPhones, an unfettered colossus at home prepared to challenge the United States on many fronts abroad.
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Susan Glasser: ‘This myth about the great and horrible Putin’
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C), accompanied by Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu (R), uses a pair of binoculars as he inspects the joint Zapad-2017 (West-2017) Russian military exercises with Belarus at the Luzhsky training ground in the Leningrad region on Sept. 18.
