The Russians are deluded, but it’s a delusion that has struck almost all the former European colonial powers after they lost their empires.
You might call it ‘post-imperial muscle memory’, like the phantom sensation that an amputated leg is still there even after it’s gone.
01 April 2022 – 04:00
“Putin assessed what would make him a popular leader and set about doing it. The bloody trail of conflict he has drawn from Moscow through Georgia, Syria and Ukraine…is inherent to his pitch to his …