Putin’s Dilemma
What’s a dictator to do when his military forces are clearly third-rate?
8 min readApr 28, 2022
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…