Projecting strength
by digby
This review of the book "The New Tsar" about Vladimir Putin sounds fascinating:
Rather than a unified theory of Putin, what Myers offers is the portrait of a man swinging from crisis to crisis with one goal: projecting strength.
Here's a translation of some of his speeches:
“We're gonna have so many victories ... at some point it’s gonna be coming out of your ears. We’re gonna make our military so big and so strong and so great, and it will be so powerful that I don’t think we’re ever going to have to use it. Nobody’s gonna mess with us. There’s nobody bigger or better at the military than I am."
Oh sorry that was Trump. My mistake.