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From RFE/RL, Oct 6, 2015
After a two week break, Brian Whitmore returns with the Daily Vertical, today taking on how Vladimir Putin, in his megalomaniacal dream of a “Russian World” – most lately expressed in his meddling in Syria – is irritating not only his foes but friends as well.
As Whitmore points out, this latest Putin gambit may come back to bite him in his tender parts – and that resistance may start with another regional kingmaker, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
To listen to today’s commentary, link below:
http://www.rferl.org/content/daily-ve ... s-and-foes-/27290505.html