Nina Khrushcheva: ‘Delusional’ for Anybody To Believe They Can Predict Putin

DIAZ-BALART: "Putin is obviously thinking this is nor thing he can try and may work for him. How far is he willing to go?"
KHRUSHCHEVA: "That's another thing about Putin. We always try to predict how far he can go but we think that cannot be because strategically that does not work. For example, there are news already that ISIS declared millions for the head of Russian soldiers. So the fact that thinking ISIS won't go to Russian cities is delusional. Putin always blames the other side. And a lot of this campaign because it's Syria and it's very far from the Russian border at least at the time so it's also, as I said, an information campaign, a propaganda campaign for his own public saying I am defending against America incompetence fundamentalism. He declares a Christian war in a sense saying the migrant crisis in Europe is not only a migrant crisis, it's also a -- I think what works for him, he plays a different level but I don't think that anybody who says they can predict Putin's steps, you know, five or ten, is really quite delusional because so far we've often been wrong on the predictions of his strategy."