Putin Is Going to Lose His War.
And the World Should Prepare for Instability in Russia.
I would like to share a part of the insights and analysis by Mr. Anders Åslund, a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum and author of Russia’s Crony Capitalism, which originally appeared in the Foreign Affairs dated May 26, 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin could hardly have used his May 9 Victory Day address, an annual holiday marking the Nazis’ surrender to the Soviets, to declare victory in his military campaign against Ukraine. Neither did he use the occasion to declare a general mobilization, as some analysts had predicted. Instead, speaking from a podium in Moscow's Red Square, Putin sounded like a sore loser, whining that NATO’s threats had “forced” him to act preemptively in the Donbas.
