"Putin is a deliberate political chameleon" | Fiona Hill

at the top level of governments in the United Kingdom in the United States and across Europe people change all the time so in a way we keep losing the plot at least politically so know the average person like you know you and I and others who are interested in Russia might have been following Putin you know for 20 odd years and know quite a lot about him I I've written a book about him so yeah I've been following from quite a long time but people in government come and go and you know in a way they keep kind of losing the thread and they keep coming back and reinterpreting him and he himself is something of a deliberate political comedian you know he kind of changes his appearances in a way and his whole attitudes to sort of suit the person that he's meeting with I mean this is deliberate because of course he was in the KGB in the security services it's his job to dissemble it's his job to manipulate people to exploit their vulnerabilities and you know he often you know presents himself differently

Channel: The Institute of Art and Ideas

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Length: 0min 56sec (56 seconds)

Published: Fri May 17 2024