Andrei Kozyrev: “It’s not enough in any military confrontation. You cannot win a small skirmish, you cannot win especially large war like…”

any dictator or any authoritarian, they suffer from the same problem that they surround themselves with boot licker, so to say our, Yes, men. And those Yes, men, they are afraid just to report.

It is less possible than overthrow him. That’s Russian tradition. They fear to tell the boss the truth, but one day they might come with a weapon and escort him either to the grave or to retirement.

The West should not even think of coming back to business as usual with Russia. They have to free themselves from their dependence on Russian oil and gas.

He does not want to recognize it himself, I think. And, definitely, he does not want Russian people to understand what is happening.