The constant attempts to smear Putin as some kind of kleptomaniac totalitarian are largely laughed at in Russia. While they may make some Western activists feel all warm and gooey inside, they are ultimately futile. In fact, they only serve to intensify a siege mentality in Russia that actually heightens support for Putin.

While the European Union was fighting against “the Russian hybrid war”, the terrorists hit us in “the heart of Europe” – as a slogan at the Brussels Airport, one of the terrorists’ targets, calls the city. Meanwhile the EU political elite in Brussels as well as in many national capitals throughout Europe behaves like Don Quixote.

When Russia’s President Vladimir Putin declared that he was withdrawing the bulk of Russian troops from Syria, he once again – and probably not for the last time – revealed Russia’s flexibility in foreign policies, thereby exerting profound influence on world politics and international relations.

In a long essay based on a series of interviews to The Atlantic the outgoing president, in fact, dwells on his foreign policy legacy, or “The Obama Doctrine.” To put his ideas in a nutshell, the United States must sustain its hegemony and have others do the dirty work. In fact he presents the policy that we refer to as “managed chaos”

The results of a recent opinion poll show without any doubt that the majority of the Russian population supports president Putin because his policy is considered consistent with the desires of the people.