The US has only just begun realizing that the "new cold war" is in fact already under way and that the Russian president is winning it, writes the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet quoted by the RT.
To date, Putin has managed to do virtually everything he has undertaken in foreign policy, and now his influence in the world is greater than ever, says the author of the Svenska Dagbladet.
After "Russia's attempts to influence who will take the post of president in the US," the Americans began gradually realizing that the new "cold war" is already under way and that is not Washington who is winning, writes Jenny Nordberg in his article quoted by RT.
According to the author, if we think about the US role in today's world, it is the Russian president Vladimir Putin who comes to the forefront first. He has been on the political stage for two decades and has seen the replacement of US presidents all this time.
"There is the impression that each new American president takes possession with the same naïve optimism toward Putin, but he can deceive to a greater or lesser degree any of them," a US diplomat told Svenska Dagbladet.
According to the author, President Putin began by taking the media under control and performing "systematic cleaning" of critics and discordant elements, at the same time reaching agreements with several of the biggest oligarchs, for whom the alternative would be imprisonment or worse.
However, he "closely followed" US attempts to "export democracy" through military operations and saw what it did in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. And it is only now that US diplomats are forced to recognize that Putin is "the most talented player on the whole foreign policy scene," while most of the steps taken by the US since 2001 have in fact only undermined US influence in the Middle East .
According to the author, Vladimir Putin has achieved almost everything he has planned so far, so the author asks a rhetorical question: "Is it worth at least devoting every second article to Russia and Putin instead of Trump?"
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