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Mark Galeotti, "Putin's Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

New Books in Russian and Eurasian Studies

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Putin's Last War With a Question Mark at the End

I don't think that Putin is going to be in a position to have another war in him Because I don't think he's really going to have much of a military. The quality of the force has seen a dramatic decline And it's going to take at least a decade to reconstitute Russian forces as they were in January 2022. So, you know, this is a very different war from all the other ones It was clearly badly conceived Badly executed and it's one in which actually Putin involved himself Much more personally than in any of the other conflicts. He likes playing the political the historical comparisons game and at times he compares himself with people like Peter the Great well Increasingly he's

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