With his elfin poker face, receding short golden hair, diminutive
but muscular body, and stiff clipped gait, Vladimir Putin is among
the world's most recognizable leaders. He has tightly ruled Russia
since 31 December 1999, and will firmly assert power from the
Kremlin for the foreseeable future. Many fear and loath him for his
brutality, for ordering opponents imprisoned on trumped up charges
and even murdered. Yet most Russians adore him for rebuilding the
economy, state authority, and national pride. What drives Putin?
Much more than greed for money and power animates him. He is a
zealous nationalist deadset to make Russia great again. He mourns
the Soviet Union's breakup as the greatest political catastrophe of
the twentieth century.' Putin's nostalgia is understandable. The
Russian empire peaked in territory, population, military power, and
prestige when it was called the Soviet Union. Putin has mastered
the art of power. Depending on what is at stake, that involves the
deft wielding of appropriate or smart' ingredients of hard'
physical power like armoured divisions, multinational corporations,
and assassins, and soft' psychological power like diplomats,
honey-traps, cyber-trolls, and fake news factories to defeat
threats and seize opportunities. Russian hackers penetrated the
Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton's campaign
organization, extracted tens of thousands of potentially
embarrassing emails, and posted them on WikiLeaks. As the Kremlin's
latest ruler Putin, like most of his predecessors, is as realistic
as he is ruthless. He knows the limits of Russian hard and soft
power while constantly trying to expand them. He is doing whatever
he can to advance Russian national interests as he interprets them.
In Putin's mind, Russia can rise only as far as the West can fall.
And on multiple fronts he is methodically advancing to those ends.
Putin's Virtual War reveals just how and why he does so, and the
dire consequences for America, Europe, and the world beyond.
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