He has contempt for soft power; he believes in manly military priorities; he seeks to spread the Russian model to the near-abroad; he longs for another clarifying, nation-mobilizing cold war; he’s paranoid; he’s incompetent; he despises “appeasement”; in over-reaching, he undermines himself. Is he Cheney or Putin? Or, apart from the constitutions which constrain American leaders, one and the same?