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Putin doubles down on his disastrous Ukraine gamble 

Manas Chakravarty   •

The Russian power elite is unable to reconcile to the reality that they are now a pale shadow of what the Soviet Union used to be, their army is no Red Army, their generals are not Marshal Zhukov

Faced with increasing dissatisfaction at home, Putin thought that a quick win in Ukraine would restore his prestige and popularity, just as the war against Georgia had done in 2008 and the annexation of the Crimea in 2014

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