
Julia Ioffe @juliaioffe
I was just on @DeadlineWH with @McFaul who, as usual, said something deeply perceptive: Putin has been to war before (Chechnya (1999), Georgia (2008), Ukraine (2014), Syria(2015)) and he won all those conflicts. He is not afraid to go to war. In fact, he *wants* to go to war. — PolitiTweet.org