The Case for Vladimir Putin

Joe Brunoli
17 min readMar 27, 2023

Recent events have led me to re-examine the legitimacy of Putin’s actions in Ukraine.

Putin announces his “Special Military Action” [Source: RT]

Russia’s “Special Military Operation” launched against Ukraine in February 2022 has been described as “unprovoked”, “disgusting”, “outrageous”, “immoral” — and above all, “ILLEGAL”.

Even commentators and analysts who can bring themselves to see Putin’s point of view still have to frame their opinions with…

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Joe Brunoli

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