Putin’s Dilemma

What’s a dictator to do when his military forces are clearly third-rate?

Allan Milne Lees

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Image credit: Daily Express

As the war in Ukraine moves into its third month, NATO members are slowly recovering from their premature defeatism and spinelessness, albeit at a glacial pace and still always doing too little, too late. The West, which regarded Russia’s military as a near-peer force, now sees that in reality Russian forces are…

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Allan Milne Lees

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