Tag: oneupmanship
War in Ukraine: Putin and the strategy of permanent one-upmanship
Despite the more than mixed results of his “special military operation” in Ukraine, Putin gives no sign of wanting to back down. When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky flew to the…
Vladimir Putin chooses one-upmanship
The day after the recognition of the independence of the separatist territories of Donetsk and Lugansk, the Russian president brandished the threat of a large-scale war. A new step in…