What’s the real importance of Putin’s recent prediction of the EU’s inevitable collapse?

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

Andrew Korybko The salience isn’t whether he truly believes it, but whether his Foreign Ministry and intelligence services politicize their assessments of this scenario to conform to what they think he wants to hear, which would go against what he earlier said about the need to abandon wishful thinking.Putin predicted at the Valdai Club’s annual summit in early October that “they will fall apart without any help from us” in response to a question about whether Russia &...