Zakaria: ‘Putin Can Exercise Power More Effectively, More Ruthlessly’ than Any Leader in the World
‘The power of the president is dependent on the power of his country’
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ZAKARIA: "Well, we thought about it a lot. Obviously the United States, or for that matter China, is more powerful than Russia, but Russia is a major world power. Thousands of nuclear weapons. A U.N. Security Council veto. Spans 11 time zones, borders three continents. And the power of a president is dependent on it, the power of his country, and also how much he can exercise that power in a completely unconstrained way. And Vladimir Putin can exercise power more effectively, more ruthlessly and more freely than any leader in the world."
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