The book that best explains Putin's insanity

"The Third Empire" is an ethno-nationalist nightmare and the Kremlin loves it

The horrifying war on Ukraine doesn’t make sense — not politically, not financially, not in terms of anything resembling ethics or morals or basic decency.

However, a 2006 book, “The Third Empire. What Russia must become,” basically predicted the war as it first began in 2014 and how it escalated dramatically just last week. The book was written by a pr…