I can't imagine Putin to be a passionate, volatile sort of personality. I think he's probably more the very controlled, ruthless type. Just imagine the confidence that Putin and his allies and his military commanders must have, to have calculated that even if they go in hard, flooding Crimea with troops, encircling Ukranian military bases and just annexing the whole damn thing, nobody's going to do a thing about it. Even the Ukrainian military, I mean what can they do? The Russians have absolutely supreme air superiority, they already have the entire Black Sea Fleet right there, the Russian Army is pouring in at the moment. It's done. A fait accompli. An absolute masterclass in realpolitik.
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