Unlike Brezhnev, Putin Is Not ‘A Rational Scoundrel’ With Whom Compromise Is Possible – OpEd

Many who are now arguing for Ukraine and the West to make concessions to Moscow and thus end the war are operating on the false assumption that Vladimir Putin is “a rational scoundrel” like Leonid Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders with whom the West often negotiated, Aleksandr Skobov says.

But in fact, the Russain...