I am reading a biography on JFK (President Kennedy: A Profile of Power) and the author, Richard Reeves, detailed how Kennedy, who had allegedly graduated from the London School of Economics, was overwhelmed by Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961 as he was completely unfamiliar with communist theory.
This would appear to be a mirror image. Putin is completely unfamiliar with capitalist theory.
Kennedy- so unfamiliar with communist theory?...the same Kennedy who first sent troops into Vietnam to counter the communist insurgency?..who started to back an effort to topple a Communist leader in Cuba?...whose brother Bobby, the AG went after the communist backed unions ?...
And Richard Reeves wrote this?...hard to believe...easier to believe that Kennedy did not want to stir up the democratic left in this country so as not to upset his voting base so early in his Presidency...Remember Kennedy eventually made Kruschev reverse the boats that were carrying nuclear missiles to Cuba ...
But just as Kennedy was playing the politician’s part- not the misunderstanding President’s part, so too is Putin playing the chess game of RealPolitik, sly old KGB apparatchik that he still is...He is a thief,a murderer and an overall thug.