Mark Gongloff, Columnist

A Desperate, Losing Putin Flirts With Armageddon

Somehow we’ve got to convince him it’s not in his best interest to go nuclear.

September 21, 2022 at 8:53 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.

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Now, I am no political genius, but it seems to me that if you’re in charge of Russia and the top-trending search term on Google is “How to escape from Russia,” then you might be having a bad time.