PATRICK BULGER | Red Army blues: stuck in a trench with Vladimir Putin

The Russian president knows we’re in his corner, nonaligned or neutral. The West knows it too

01 June 2023 - 22:22

Back in the days when SA prided itself on telling right from wrong, former president Nelson Mandela said: “What I am condemning is that one power, with a president who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust.’’  ..

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