No, that's the point. I think he had no any noticeable imagination at all. He acts slowly, thoroughly, by the book, carefully balancing between all threats, doing everything to keep his power. And since he still at the top, after two decades, he do it pretty well.
He is KGB agent, remember? Being three-letter agent is incompatibe with being delusional.
He is not a great leader with great ambitions, like Stalin, f.e. He acts strictly in a realm of possibilities, not in realm of some dream or whatever. That is why there are no any decent ideology in Russia, any "great projects", any defined goals, any vision of country path and place in the world. And it is sad.
No, that's the point. I think he had no any noticeable imagination at all. He acts slowly, thoroughly, by the book, carefully balancing between all threats, doing everything to keep his power. And since he still at the top, after two decades, he do it pretty well.
He is KGB agent, remember? Being three-letter agent is incompatibe with being delusional.
He is not a great leader with great ambitions, like Stalin, f.e. He acts strictly in a realm of possibilities, not in realm of some dream or whatever. That is why there are no any decent ideology in Russia, any "great projects", any defined goals, any vision of country path and place in the world. And it is sad.