Max Boot
Putin is probing NATO. He keeps finding mush, not steel.
The Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin probably did not utter the maximoften attributedto him: 'Probe with bayonets. If you encounter mush, proceed; if you encounter steel, withdraw.' But it's an accurate description of Russian President Vladimir Putin's methodology.
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