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Originally Posted by ikalugin
In general I would point out that we tend to lack a long term strategy, the leadership style of Putin is that he solves issues as they arise.
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That could very well be so. But he tries to manipulate chances for issues rising so that once they rise they are more in his favour or of a kind that he can handle them. My comparison to Backgammon desroibes best, imo, what I mean. You cannot forsee the dice results coming,. but you can optimise your pieces' positions so to maximise your degrees of freedom for eny future dice rolls coming, no matter what they are. By that you are prepared for a greater number of possible dice results, you have more possible good moves in a higher number of possible dice results. You will still lose some single games that way, when in one game the dice are too often against you - but by laws of probability, over the many games of a full match you will win the match nevertheless.