Is Russia-Ukraine Spinning Out of Control? (Robert Wright & Anatol Lieven)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is Putin Trying to Change the Russian Agenda and Strategy?
Putin would not be doing this if he hadn't already given up on the hope that Ukraine or the West would offer what Russia could see as a reasonable compromise peace. The Biden administration has declared over and over again that these negotiations are purely a matter of the Ukrainians and America has no say. And so I suppose we Putin is hoping to shift the whole Russian agenda and strategy, which has already caused change and been scaled down greatly since February.
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