Lawrence Freedman: ‘Autocracies tend to make catastrophic decisions. That’s the case with Putin’
In this article, Freedman, an expert on strategy, argues that autocrats make catastrophic decisions because people around them tell them what they want to hear, not what they need to hear—further, the press and TV act as an echo chamber for the autocrats' views. Unlike autocracies, leaders in western liberal democracies receive lots of criticism.
