Putin rolls the dice not only on Ukraine, but also on his own leadership and legacy

John Wight
5 min readSep 21, 2022
Russian President Vladimir Putin

It’s hard to imagine Russian President Vladimir Putin getting much in the way of sleep right now. With Ukraine having seized the initiative and momentum after six months of conflict — six months that neither Putin nor his military advisors thought it would take to crush Ukrainian resistance to the Kremlin’s ‘special military operation’ — Putin is…

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