Not to respond to Putin in the way Putin would.
It was in the heady days of the so-called peace dividend. We’re talking about the early 1990’s. The Berlin Wall had been breached and the Soviet Union had come apart at the seams. The Cold War was over, which allowed the Western democracies to radically reduce our military expenditure. Such was the importance of this juncture that American political scientist Francis Fukuyama coined the phrase The End of History. He explained: “That is, the end-point of mankind's ideologic