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The mask has finally slipped – and Putinism is infecting other world leaders. He must be confronted Vladimir Putin has many faces: Russian patriot, man of the people, macho sportsman, global power-broker. But the mask slipped last week. The world glimpsed the real Putin and it was an ugly sight. There is a meanness about him, a smallness of mind born of fear and anger. His world view, warped by the cold war and his KGB training, is twisted, resentful, defensive. He has almost nothing positive to say. Putin is an empty space where leadership and moral example should be. Why, then, should anybody care what he thinks? His remarks proclaiming western liberalism “obsolete” were deliberately provocative. His inflammatory comments about immigration and multiculturalism, his ill-disguised homophobia and his chilling vow to punish “traitors” (a reference to last year’s Salisbury poisonings by Russian agents) were familiar tactics, intended to sow division and unease. Why rise to such obvious incitements? Surely it would be better to ignore him? Western leaders find that impossible in part because they fear Putin may be right. Certainly not on matters of principle, nor in terms of his nasty prejudices. But when he suggests reactionary nationalist and populist forces are everywhere advancing, that the postwar democratic consensus no longer holds and that “the liberal idea [is in] conflict with the interests of the overwhelming majority of the population”, they worry there could be a grain of truth. This is the truly menacing, subversive face of Putinism. And it is infecting the global body politic. It’s an eat-or-be-eaten world in which cold-eyed men like Putin and Trump are predators-in-chief Continue reading…
