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"Putin knew he was going to roll over Trump before he even walked into the room;while both men are experienced liars,Putin brought decades of KGB tradecraft and manipulation to the fight. He's a wily head-gamer who rose to the top of the bloody Russian pyramid of political power"
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He emerged as top-dog warlord, through oil oligarchs into jail, and runs a terror state. He doesn’t need shitty ice rinks. He can coerce billionaires to do far more. It is a big mistake to judge people by the contexts in which they rose to power. Empires fall for such mistakes.
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Evaluating politicians on a metaphoric business competence scale. He may not make mailroom clerk as a businessman. But he isn’t in the business of business. Politics eats business for lunch when conflict sharpens. Just ask Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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