Ukraine, Obama: “Putin never so reckless, but there has always been danger”

The “danger has always been there”, but Vladimir Putin’s current behavior was not foreseeable ten years ago. Putin “has always been ruthless against his own people as well as against others, he has always been someone caught in this twisted and distorted sense of rancor and ethnic nationalism”. It is Barack Obama who speaks thus of the Russian president, a month and a half after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. “I think that part of Putin has always been there – added the former American president to the Nbc Today program – What we have seen with the invasion of Ukraine is that he was reckless in a way that perhaps we would not have. expected eight, ten years ago, but the danger was always there “.