PRINCETON PROF. STEPHEN COHEN: PUTIN 'DIDN'T CREATE' CRISIS, 'HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO REACT'

◼ On CNN, Fareed Zakaria interviewed Princeton and NYU professor Stephen Cohen about his article in The Nation this week in which he argues that Vladamir Putin is not the "neo-imperialist thug" he is accused of being. - William Bigelow/Breitbart

Asked about Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine, Cohen said that Putin did not create the crisis and had no choice but to react. Cohen also said that next to Mikhail Gorbachev and possibly Boris Yeltsin, Putin was the least authoritarian Russian ruler in 400 years.