Excuse me,

[mahnmut]

but biased headlines like The Tyrant's Turn can only amuse me. It says:

Russian President Vladimir Putin was supposed to be a pro-American reformer. So what went wrong?

How funny is that? I think Russia is very much in accord with the US style of policy / behaviour, both domestically and internationally. So it's actually à la America to a great extent, copying the US patterns of doing things. After all, the two powers share a common Cold War instrumentarium. Some things can't be easily changed.