Many observers see Putin as an aberration, some unfortunate deviation from normality. I disagree. Watch this excerpt from Yeltsin - Jiang Zemin meeting in Beijing, December 1999. You can see:

- Nuclear blackmail
- "Multi-polar world" rhetorics
- Attempted alignment with China pic.twitter.com/LlX9X7XDsO

— Kamil Galeev (@kamilkazani) February 1, 2023