'He still thinks that he can outlast the West,' the former head of Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service told Newsweek of the Russian president.
Still, Western officials and politicians have been particularly hesitant over the Crimea question. Kyiv has made clear its intention to liberate the peninsula, which was occupied by Russia's"little green men" in 2014 and subsequently annexed. The seizure of the region is key to Putin's imperial Russian revival, and as his weekend visit to the territory showed, a deeply personal achievement.
"But I would say that this would be really a final card for him to play. And I would say that we are not very close to that final card. I think he gets signals from the United States, I think he gets signals from China, not to do that. I don't see the nuclear card in the picture for the near term." "I think it will stay around," Marran said of the Russian obsession with dominating Ukraine."I think whoever takes over from Putin will still retain this kind of Putinistic thinking and Putinistic way of ruling the country. I don't see that it will change drastically. But we'll have to wait and see."
, and the country at large, touting what he said is an"absolutely prevailing consolidation of both the state and society around the decision of the president to hold the special military operation," using the Kremlin's terminology for the attack.
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