Stylistically, they are quite similar. Masha Gessen More Quotes by Masha Gessen More Quotes From Masha Gessen Fact-checking is a terrible way to report on Donald Trump's lying . It's like we enter into a dialogue with him. It's as though, he says "A," and we check "A," and it gives it no context. Saying that he's "misstating" is an even worse way of covering it. That's NPR's ridiculous policy of not calling his lies "lies." It's really destructive. Masha Gessen ridiculous giving lying There's not a whole lot of similarity between the two societies, Russian and American. There are similarities behind psychological forces. One thing we can learn is that things can change pretty fast. And this idea that we know who we are and that things can only get so bad in this country - that's wrong. Masha Gessen similarity psychological country For Russians in the '90s, there was that sense of not knowing what the future held at all. And coming off a long period of when people actually were robbed of the ability to plan their future - that's very much a part of totalitarian control - that exacerbated it. In this country, we are not coming off a long period like that. But I think that for a lot of Americans, as a result of globalization, as a result of the housing crisis, the future is just too uncertain. And their place in the world is too uncertain. Masha Gessen long country thinking There's a really aggressive posture to both men. Putin respects fighters and he respects aggression and he doesn't respect sort of calm and deliberation, he wants a manly adversary. He wants somebody he can understand. Masha Gessen top-news Putin sincerely believes that Russia is surrounded by enemies and the job of a president is to be scary enough to scare them off. Masha Gessen top-news
