It speaks to Putin's character, and his KGB background, having essentially lawless, mercenary group, a private army, responsible only to him.
James Clapper: “It speaks to Putin's character, and his KGB background, having essentially lawless, mercenary group, a private army…”
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Clapper comments on Putin's use of mercenaries and its implications for his leadership style.
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No, I don't. The Chinese setup is that there is a Polit bureau member who is the overseer -- the senior overseer on behalf of the Polit bureau for the entirety of the Intelligence and Security apparatus of China.
I think this reflects Russian insecurity. And it's almost like, Putin needs a rhetorical security blanket, of making threats, like this.
Well, no, it doesn't. And the fact that none of this makes sense, but most acutely, I think, nuclear-related information.
I've gotten very concerned about it. There are Chinese, Russians and others so we traditionally thought about it as people coming from Central America, South and Central America. Well, it's much broader than that. So this is a serious…





