• The failed assault on Ukraine has put an end to the illusion that Russia is a first rate power, especially since Putin's authoritarian regime has invested so heavily in creating a state that 'exists only for warfare.' | AFP-JIJI
    The failed assault on Ukraine has put an end to the illusion that Russia is a first rate power, especially since Putin's authoritarian regime has invested so heavily in creating a state that "exists only for warfare." | AFP-JIJI
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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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