Mark Gongloff, Columnist

There’s No Table Long Enough to Shield Putin From His Problems

Things aren’t going well in Ukraine, or at home. But a cornered Putin is a more dangerous Putin.

February 28, 2022 at 9:51 PM UTC

Mark Gongloff is a Bloomberg Opinion editor and columnist covering climate change. He previously worked for Fortune.com, the Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal.

Night of the Long Tables.
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One of the weirder things about following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been watching Vladimir Putin sit at the opposite end of ludicrously long tables from people he’s meeting. Here he is with Emmanuel Macron: