{"id":403724,"date":"2022-02-04T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/vladimir-putin-unmasked-macleans-ca\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T22:11:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:11:11","slug":"vladimir-putin-unmasked-macleans-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/vladimir-putin-unmasked-macleans-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"#Vladimir Putin, unmasked – Macleans.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Vladimir Putin, unmasked – Macleans.ca<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Image of the Week: True to form, the Russian president tries something no one else thinks they can get away with\n <\/div>\n
\n Russian President Vladimir Putin is nothing if not strategic. That he deployed as many as 100,000 troops to the Ukrainian border before the Winter Olympics in Beijing, then released a joint statement of mutual support with Chinese President Xi Jinping one day before the opening ceremonies, is surely no coincidence. In their letter, they stated the two countries\u2019 alliance had \u201cno limits<\/a>.\u201d And why would it? Putin seemingly delights in ignoring democratic countries\u2019 wishes in Eastern Europe. If there were a gold medal for eye-rolling, Xi\u2019s government would win it for all the times a Western nation or organization has labelled their treatment of Uyghurs a genocide. And none of the diplomatic boycotts of these Game<\/a>s announced by countries like Canada has led to meaningful movement on the part of China from its campaign of deflection and denial.\u00a0Authoritarian states, led by strongmen who are changing their nation\u2019s laws to stay in power, have every reason to stick together\u2014and stick it to the West. So it\u2019s no surprise to see Putin at the Games\u2019 opening ceremony, unmasked and alone, flaunting pandemic protocols\u2014in an image distributed by the Kremlin, itself. At a glance, it app<\/a>ears no one else in attendance went maskless. Maybe no one else knew they could get away with it, either.
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