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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Sam Kiley

Putin doesn’t want peace – and Trump’s baffling error has made it easy for him

Whether by accident or design, Vladimir Putin has a useful idiot running America. International diplomacy has been turned on its head, enemies made friends, allies threatened, international laws defoliated.

Russian strategic policy, known as the Gerasimov doctrine, argues that chaos in the ranks of the enemy is victory and a path to greatness. By that standard, Putin should be stringing up bunting in the Kremlin.

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