>Communicating through sockpuppets like Medvedev is exactly how a gaslighter par excellence like Putin operates.
Quite the opposite, in fact. Putin's Munich speech in 2007 was as direct as it gets.
Anyway, your suggestion that Putin telegraphs his true intent (to occupy Poland and Baltics) through sockpuppet doesn't make any sense -- why would anyone do that? Medvedev playing bad cop routine -- that I can imagine, but what you are suggesting is quite strange, to put it politely.
Quite the opposite, in fact. Putin's Munich speech in 2007 was as direct as it gets.
Anyway, your suggestion that Putin telegraphs his true intent (to occupy Poland and Baltics) through sockpuppet doesn't make any sense -- why would anyone do that? Medvedev playing bad cop routine -- that I can imagine, but what you are suggesting is quite strange, to put it politely.