Political scientist Sergei Markov was responding to comments Hillary Clinton made on the Pod Save America podcast.
on Tuesday in New York City, when she linked Putin's desire to"be on the side that wins" with his family's suffering during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Referencing a conversation she had with Putin at a 2011 summit, Clinton said:"Think about the trauma that his family and so many Russian families went through, and in some people that kind of trauma makes them feel like never again, no war, we have to be more compassionate and caring, we have to help people.
"And in some people it makes them think 'I'm going to be on the side that wins, the people that die are going to be the people who I don't want to see living.'" Markov disagreed with Clinton's assessment, insisting what Putin's family went through during the 1942-43 Battle of Stalingrad made him want to avoid war.:"And the main thing is we don't want a war. If only there were no war—these are the main words in the minds of our people. These words are shared by Putin as a man who has been through all these stages with the people."
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