Putin's Strategy for Outlasting the West

Mark galliotti: I'm not convinced that the Russians will be able to unless there is some truly dramatic crisis which distracts above all America. He says if Moscow thinks it's going to impose some ugly and humiliating defeat on Ukraine easily well I suspect it's gonna have another think coming. "Russia digs in with optimism in some cases with grim pessimism but just as it's busy digging trenches across Zaporicia it is in effect digging trenches all across its society"