STOCKHOLM – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine has been exposed as an extraordinary — and extraordinarily brutal — folly.
So immense is his blunder that he may now have rendered Russia a failed state, defined by the Oxford Dictionary as one where the “political or economic system has become so weak that the government is no longer in control.”
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