No I don’t. Clearly Putin has little chance to succeed. But that doesn’t mean his best move was capitulation to the incorrigible Western liberal consensus which was clearly too arrogant to even plan for the possibility that anyone would disobey their incessant cravings for domination. I think his speech made very clear where he stands. And while some of it represented unhinged nationalist ideals, every single one of his criticisms of hypocritical Western liberal leaders was spot on.