The Russian leader should not be 'underestimated' and is 'always thinking about revenge,' U.K. foreign policy expert Nile Gardiner said Saturday.
is a"very angry man" thinking about revenge after a series of military failures in Ukraine, said Nile Gardiner, a foreign policy expert and ex-aide to former U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in an interview published Saturday.
Gardiner made the comments in an article published in Express.co.uk about Russia's ongoing war with its Eastern European neighbor. However, the foreign policy expert said he doesn't believe Putin would go as far as using nuclear weapons, a prospect that the Kremlin has"The Russian rhetoric about the use of nuclear weapons is overwhelmingly intended to intimidate," he told the news outlet.
Nonetheless, Gardiner added that the Russian leader should not be"underestimated," stating that"Putin is a very angry man these days, always thinking about revenge and all sorts of things." Russian President Vladimir Putin is an"angry man" who may be seeking revenge amid military failures, foreign policy expert Nile Gardiner said in a new interview on Saturday. Above, Putin is seen outside of Moscow on May 28.His comments come more than three months after Putin sent over 100,000 troops to invade Ukraine for a so-called"special military operation.