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Gilbert Achcar is a professor at SOAS, University of London, and author of the forthcoming The New Cold War: Chronicle of a Confrontation Foretold.
There is a striking parallel between Vladimir Putin's behaviour in Ukraine and Saddam Hussein's behaviour in the past. The two men resorted to force, accompanied by remarkably similar claims, to achieve expansionist ambitions, writes Gilbert Achcar.
