By Wes Culp Diplomatic Courier February 27, 2023
Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has proved to be a deeply costly undertaking for the Russian armed forces in terms of materiel, manpower, and prestige. Along with it, the attention and bandwidth of the Russian state has increasingly been devoted to supporting the invasion. This has had consequences, not just in the redirection of state resources from domestic projects, but also in Russia’s existing network of military projects in Eurasia. In particular, 2022 was a true annus horribilis for the Collective..........To Read More....
Preparing for Vladimir Putin's war crimes trial Russia’s war on Ukraine is now in its second year. Hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians are dead. Millions more have fled both countries. Ukraine is in ruins. It will take tens of billions of dollars to rebuild the country. Russian President Vladimir Putin bears unique responsibility. Accountability may be improbable given Putin’s stranglehold on power, but Putin is afraid. The reason why Putin makes dissent by his one-time allies a capital offense is that he knows that the motivation for their criticism may be less sincere opposition to the Ukraine war and more an attempt to signal that they could be reasonable alternatives to Putin...............
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