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Frida Ghitis: Vladimir Putin evaded responsibility for the war he launched in Ukraine .
She says Putin retreated into history — all the way back to the year 862 .
Ghitis says Putin 's message was pitched to Russia first , its region second and lastly the non-Western world.
He says Putin imagines a perpetual victim of privileged oppressors, “the golden billion”.
Putin himself can hardly believe he’s going to win that war by brutalizing his neighbor. But the whinging passivity of his portrait of Russian history, and the deletion of his own role in shaping events, isn’t just moral evasion — it’s a psychological prison. Fatalism can be fascinating in a novelist or poet; in a dictator, it means war without aims or end. Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review . Twitter: @ToryAnarchist.
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