Putin and the Fool's Diagonal
One could not have hoped for – or feared – greater humiliation for the master of the , and reprisals were not long in coming . The rain of missiles that fell on kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on Monday , October 10, is indeed Putin's direct response to the snub that had been inflicted on him 48 hours earlier, and which could not go unpunished in the eyes of of the Kremlin . Saturday October 8 at 3 a.m., when the Russian president had just celebrated his 70 e anniversary , an explosion devastated the Kerch bridge which connects Russia and Crimea , the pride of the Russian president and the most complete symbol of his domination over the Ukrainian territory annexed in 2014. To attack this bridge was to attack the heart of Putin's imperialism and to underline its fragility – or even worse , to want to announce its end. It was also to make fun once again of the setbacks of the Russian president – and the Ukrainians did not hesitate to do so. A provocation which of