Karen Pierce says Putin’s dislike of the West has been ‘hardening’ for decades

“We’ve seen over the past decades, there has been a hardening of President Putin’s dislike of the West… and not just compete with the West, but to actually overturn Western values. He and foreign minister Lavrov are fond of saying, ‘It’s the end of the West.’… He does have this visceral sense about where Ukraine fits into Russia’s security. It’s not a sense shared by the Ukrainian people or the government that they democratically elected.” – Karen Pierce