Putin has played it admirably nimbly. Whether he ultimately succeeds in this impossible act of balancing remains to be seen. The smart money says he would. But if the last three years have taught us anything it is that the smart money is often disastrously wrong.
Russia's Stealth Diplomacy
By: Dr. Sam Vaknin
Also published by United Press International (UPI)
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