For over two decades, Western foreign policy has suffered from a dangerous hyper-fixation on Vladimir Putin as an immutable fixture, treating the Russian apparatus as a monolith that begins and ends with a single man.
Now, with the Russian leader now well into his 70s and the quiet fracturing of his old-guard inner circle, Europe’s collective refusal to actively analyse who comes next is a profound strategic gamble. John Loach reacts.
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