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    You are at:Home»Centers and Institutes»Vladimir Putin Feels Untouchable. The West Must Find the Courage to Stand Up to Him

    Vladimir Putin Feels Untouchable. The West Must Find the Courage to Stand Up to Him

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    By dduttachakraborty on March 18, 2018 Centers and Institutes, Faculty, In the News, Transition to Trump

    David A. Andelman, visiting scholar at the Center on National Security at Fordham Law, wrote an op-ed for CNN about Vladimir Putin becoming the president of Russia for another six-year term.

    After the weekend’s election in Russia and the expected coronation of Vladimir Putin as president yet again, some 20% of the world’s population and 17% of its entire land mass will could be ruled by two individuals serving, unchallenged, for life.

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    What Putin looks to have won in this vote, against a hand-picked selection of seven opponents he was guaranteed to overwhelm at the polls, is another six-year term — after which, should he desire, another will no doubt be enabled by a simple vote of the Duma, which is utterly under his control.

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    In every respect Putin needs to be stood up to — in economic, military and diplomatic terms. So far, he has come to feel himself all but untouchable, but his paranoia remains — and his goals that only feed that paranoia.

    Putin feels a strong need to divide NATO. And he has worked determinedly along its fringes — seeking to pull Turkey on its eastern flank away from the alliance, challenging the Baltic states on the northern periphery with deployment of advanced, nuclear-capable weapons.

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