How dangerous is Vladimir Putin’s Russia? But the Russian leader seems to be becoming more reckless and confrontational with the passage of time. But while Putin is reckless, he is not irrational. Russian state television seemed to be preparing the ground for this by suggesting that large parts of Ukraine were historically Russian territory. Despite all this, Putin still has his fans in the west, on both the far-left and the far-right.

Source: The Irish Times March 20, 2018 05:03 UTC