EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION (Half two of two) – Russian President Vladimir Putin and the kleptocratic regime he has created are the issue.  The Putin regime is arguably the supply of many of the disharmony and disruption seen on the planet in the present day.  No affordable individual can dispute this. 

An stark instance is Putin’s willingness to make use of Russia’s army in bare aggression towards neighbors by beginning a warfare in Europe, the size of which has not been seen since 1945.  He has threatened using nuclear weapons.  He has approved his intelligence companies to hold out deadly operations towards dissidents and regime opponents abroad (Litvenenko, Skripal, Kangoshvili, amongst many, many different examples).  His use of cyber capabilities inside Russia’s intelligence companies to disrupt financial exercise in targets around the globe and to affect elections and exacerbate social disharmony, is with out precedent.  The intervention of his army and mercenaries overseas to assist corrupt and authoritarian regimes is with out fashionable precedent.  He has equipped weapons which have been used to shoot down civilian plane.  His army has dedicated warfare crimes in Ukraine and Syria and Putin himself has been charged with warfare crimes by the Worldwide Legal Courtroom (ICC). 

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