Putin: What it means to not have ‘the access or understanding of his current mindset’

Former US Ambassador to Russia and Ukraine John Tefft talks with The World’s Carolyn Beeler about Vladimir Putin’s unpredictability and what it means that officials in the West don’t really know what he’s  thinking.

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