Ukraine War: Putin Thinks Russia Can Win By Out-Suffering

It hasn’t been an encouraging week for Vladimir Putin. Amid strikes and counterstrikes with Ukraine, Russia threatened that the UK “will pay” for supplying its opponent with the drones that have allowed strikes deep inside his country. The chief economist of the country’s second-largest bank was sacked for saying that Russia cannot win a “war of attrition” and that it could prompt a social crisis. And a rumor that the government would expropriate citizens’ savings to pay for the continuing confl