Putin’s war will destroy Russia
In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones.
That joke emerged in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev ordered tanks into Budapest to crush the anti-Soviet Hungarian Revolution, and reappeared in 1968, when Leonid Brezhnev sent tanks to Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring. But in 1989, when Mikhail Gorbachev chose not to send tanks or troops to Germany to preserve the Berlin Wall, the quip seemed set to become a thing of the past.
As for Russia’s Federal Security Service, it seems that the FSB’s Department for Operational Information was responsible for feeding Mr. Putin the Ukrainian narrative he wanted to hear: Russia’s Slavic brothers were ready to be liberated from the Nazi collaborators and Western puppets leading their government. It probably never crossed their minds that Mr. Putin would order an invasion of Ukraine – a move clearly running counter to Russia’s interests – based on this information.
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