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“Despite Russia’s limited gains and mounting losses, Moscow has shown little interest in serious diplomacy, insisting on maximalist terms while launching new attacks. But beneath the bluster lies a far weaker hand than many in the West assume.”
We estimate that Vladimir Putin has so far sacrificed some 1m of his fellow Russians—dead or wounded. That’s a terrible price for the gain of modest territory in the Donbas region.
For the Kremlin, however, ideological and political factors outweigh military logic.
“Russia already lost, it has not achieved any of its military goals and barely controls any important part of Ukraine.”
Understanding why Putin invaded Ukraine and Russia's fragile state can help accelerate Russia's ending of hostilities. Chris Snow, at Medium, on the rise and fall of the Soviet Empire (Part 1, Glory Blog part 3), provides enough revelations for more than one blog of...
“I don’t know whose plan it was, but it was brilliant.”
Meidas+ reprises an essay by Ukrainian journalist Illia Ponomarenko. ' 'From time to time, I have shared things from him in my daily Bulletins on politics. But he just made a post on social media where he reflected on how far Ukraine’s people and culture of come...
The rest of Europe seems ill-prepared to deal with a broken and defeated or with an emboldened victorious Russia.
“…surrender is not an option for Vladimir Putin. For him, giving up would be like turkeys voting for Christmas, and this is what makes Putin a dangerous and formidable foe.”
Russia won’t be able to afford to keep troops in the field past 2026.
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