It wasn't exactly Frost-Nixon, but in some ways the very things that made this a bad interview - the rambling diversions, the lack of real interrogation - made it an interesting source on Putin's thinking and frame of mind. Here are four take-aways less on what he actually says, and more as to what we can read into it, about his self-indulgence, his petty malice, his obsession with validation from the West and ultimately his sense of a lack of agency.
