While he imagined finding before him a divided, fragmented, apathetic West condemned to impotence, Vladimir Putin discovered it vigorous, capable of mobilizing and, above all, of severely sanctioning the invasion of Ukraine. .
He would have awakened a dormant civilization, by remobilizing it against an enemy who had managed to coax him underhandedly, and who would now reveal himself in his true face.
He even managed to give NATO a reason to live and fight, when it was believed to be brain dead.
At the very least, that's the official story Westerners have been telling each other for a month.
It has some truth to it, of course.
Westerners are the first to be surprised by the strength of their reaction against Putin.
They are surprised at the extent of the sanctions they take against him, and admire themselves finding a combativeness to which they had become unaccustomed.
Sanctions unimaginable on the day of the invasion are now considered…
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