@Dutchess_III,
> But doesn’t tanking his own economy hit his pocket?
Oh, no. He will never be among the hungry. Some estimates have him as the richest man in the world. He is no fool, and I don’t think he’s mad either. He will have billions in safe places. They’ll never find it all. Whatever might be frozen or even confiscated, he’ll have plenty left, and, if it comes to that, places he can go.
The Russian culture is profoundly different from ours. Putin doesn’t understand the West, and precious few of us understand him. That’s why I read books by Masha Gessen, as well as Karen Dawisha and Bill Browder and others.
Zelenskyy does not have to read the books.