“President Putin is a dangerous psychopath - reason is not going to work with him.”
<…> If history teaches us anything, it is that treating unstable psychopaths as if they are normal, reasonable people doesn’t work. <…> Europe didn’t pick this fight, but we should be in no doubt that Russia under Putin is an unpredictable rogue state.
President Putin is a dangerous psychopath - reason is not going to work with him, 01.02.2015, Joan Smith, 01.02.2015, The Independent http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/president-putin-is-a-dangerous-psychopath--reason-is-not-going-to-work-with-him-10015896.html,