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Putin’s High Stakes Game

Putin’s High Stakes Game

Putin’s undeserved reputation as a master strategist means some analysts have employed the metaphor of chess to his invasion of Ukraine, but is the Russian President actually playing poker with the West? Jason Pack talks to Arthur Snell about the high stakes game between NATO and Russia on Doomsday Watch.

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It’s Time to Beat Putin at Poker and Call His Bluff

It’s Time to Beat Putin at Poker and Call His Bluff

Jason Pack writes for Foreign Policy that Putin’s disordering leadership style cannot be understood through the metaphors of chess or martial arts, but by viewing the current confrontation between the West and Russia as a game of televised poker.

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