he caught what was happening in the country. Putin understood what was happening in his country. Otherwise you have coup d'etats, assassinations, impeachments and so on. So don't think of the leader as separate from the nation. He is the representative of the nation, even when a dictator. Hitler was Germany at that time. He didn't impose himself on an unwilling people. The leaders who succeed are leaders who, well, they can intimidate people. That's not very efficient because you have to trust your police and everything else. So how do we think about that in the context of decision making? Let's just take the example of US Russia. How do we determine whether or not NATO enlargement was in the national interest? Or whether it was a mistake made in the pursuit of the national interest? How do we do the same thing for Russia and its invasion of Ukraine? Was the invasion of Ukraine in the national interest of Russia? Or was it a mistake in the pursuit of national interest? It was a (22/44)
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